During the FMCC Clerkship, students will learn how to apply their knowledge to solve patients' problems in the community setting.

This seven-week specialty clerkship builds up students’ capacity in delivering primary care by polishing up their skills in conducting family medicine consultations and facilitating richer understanding of social determinants of health. It starts with an orientation week to lay a foundation of knowledge in primary care. It is then followed by various skills-building workshops to equip students with the necessary skills to handle patients and clinical scenarios in the community setting. The clerkship puts great emphasis on experiential learning by exposing students to a wide variety of ambulatory-care settings where students will interact with patients directly to understand their concerns and expectations.

Starting from 2025, a new learning activity ‘Assistant Internship in the Private Sector’ is incorporated into the clerkship. This allows students to have an intensive immersion learning experience in different private family medicine clinics across the territory to learn not only clinical skills, but also the patient-journey and practice management in the community setting.

By the end of the Clerkship, students are expected to be able to:

• Apply appropriate clinical skills to manage health problems in community-based settings using the bio-psycho-social model
• Work as a member of a primary care team
• Describe the integrated and multidisciplinary characteristics of community-based care
• Provide coordinated, multi-disciplinary and continuing community-based care