During the FMCC Clerkship students will learn how to apply knowledge to solve patients' problems. It will be useful for the career as a doctor irrespective of every specialty.

This seven-week specialty clerkship aims to provide an integration of learning experiences from family medicine and community-based care settings to allow students a richer understanding of social determinants of health and to acquire skills of health care delivery in the community. Students learn in the community across 4 major themes: Family Medicine & Primary/Ambulatory Care, Care of the Elderly, Primary Mental Health Care and Rehabilitation. The clerkship culminates in clinical competency test which examines students’ clinical skills in performing family medicine consultations, management interviews, medical record and prescription writing and care of the elderly.

Starting from 2025, a new learning activity ‘Assistant Internship in the Private Sector’ shall be incorporated into the clerkship during which students will have an intensive immersion learning experience in various private family medicine clinics across the territory to learn not only on clinical skills, but also more about 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 managing health problems in primary and community-based care settings using a 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