Specialty Clerkship – Family Medicine and Community Care (MBBS V-VI)
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.
The FMCC clerkship is cross-disciplinary as well as inter-disciplinary. Learning activities are framed to address four key themes relevant to family medicine and community care including:
Topics covered include:
- Family Medicine and Primary/Ambulatory Care (includes women and child-health, ambulatory medicine and surgery)
- Care of the elderly
- Management of common mental health disorders
- rehabilitation
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
- FMCC Introduction Seminar 2019.pdf