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Family and Community Medicine offers clerkships for students in the University Park and Hershey tracks at their respective locations.

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About the Clerkship

This clerkship is largely an ambulatory care educational experience in Family Medicine residency programs and academic practices. The goals of the clerkship are to help students to integrate basic science and clinical knowledge and to apply them to patient care, to learn skills important in Family Medicine and to experience, first hand, the practice of family physicians. Family Medicine is a specialty with emphasis in breadth rather than depth and is associated with great diversity in patients’ ages and types of medical problems. Continuity, preventive medicine, evidence-based health care, and family issues are emphasized. Minor office procedures, obstetrics, women’s health, sports medicine and community medicine are part of many family practices.

The clerkship syllabus and all clerkship materials can be found on Canvas for current Penn State College of Medicine students.

The clerkship experience is designed for students:

  1. To participate in an outpatient family medicine practice with emphasis in family oriented comprehensive care.
  2. To develop knowledge, skills and attitude for identifying, evaluation, and managing common medical problems as presented in the practice of family medicine.
  3. To develop, expand, and apply basic medical problem-solving skills; areas of emphasis will include medical interviewing, the physical examination, patient management, patient education and health promotion, and appropriate follow-up.
  4. To develop an awareness of the impact of community dynamics, care coordination services, and resources upon the practice of family medicine.

Contact Us

Alyssa Anderson, MD
Clerkship Director
aanderson8@pennstatehealth.psu.edu
717-531-8736

Anthony Dambro, MD
Co-Clerkship Director
adambro@pennstatehealth.psu.edu
717-531-8736

Diane Ferron
Clerkship Coordinator
dferron@pennstatehealth.psu.edu
717-531-8736

Locations

  • Conemaugh Memorial Medical Center | Johnstown, Pa.
  • Indiana Regional Medical Center | Indiana, Pa.
  • Lancaster General Health | Lancaster, Pa.
  • Penn State Health Medical Group – Camp Hill | Camp Hill, Pa.
  • Penn State Health Medical Group – Cocoa | Hershey, Pa.
  • Penn State Health Medical Group – Elizabethtown | Elizabethtown, Pa.
  • Penn State Health Medical Group – Harrisburg | Harrisburg, Pa.
  • Penn State Health Medical Group – Hershey | Hershey, Pa.
  • Penn State Health Medical Group – Mechanicsburg | Mechanicsburg, Pa.
  • Penn State Health Medical Group – Middletown | Middletown, Pa.
  • Penn State Health Medical Group – Mount Joy | Mount Joy, Pa.
  • Penn State Health Medical Group – Nyes Road | Harrisburg, Pa.
  • Penn State Health Medical Group – Palmyra | Palmyra, Pa.
  • Penn State Health Upper Allen | Mechanicsburg, Pa.
  • Penn State Health Strausstown | Strausstown, Pa.
  • Penn State Health St. Joseph Medical Center | Reading, Pa.
  • St. Vincent Health Center | Erie, PA (must supply own housing)
  • UPMC Altoona Family Physicians | Altoona, Pa.
  • UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh, Pa. (must supply own housing)
  • UPMC Washington | Washington, Pa.
  • UPMC Williamsport | Williamsport, Pa.
  • WellSpan Good Samaritan Hospital | Lebanon, Pa.
FCMED 722 - Family Medicine Acting Internship Expand answer

Family Medicine Acting Internship – FCMED 722

Course co-directors: Dr. Leesha Helm and Dr. Jennifer Grana

Administrative coordinator: Diane Ferron; dferron@pennstatehealth.psu.edu; 717-531-8187

Description: The Family and Community Medicine Acting Internship is a continuous experience designed to enhance your prior 3rd year experiences. The rotation is 4 weeks total and is split between inpatient and outpatient (2 weeks inpatient, 2 weeks outpatient) unless extenuating circumstances should arise. All exceptions and changes must be approved by the AI director and at the discretion of OME. These session and expectations will include time spent with our FCM attendings and residents during weekday hours but will also evening, night and weekend shifts. The rotation will also include attendance at Wednesday residency didactics as well as sessions at Beacon Health, a free community primary care office for the underserved, as well as dedicated time working with our interprofessional care teams. An optional family medicine OB experience may be possible in select cases.

University Park

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About the Clerkship

This clerkship is largely an ambulatory care educational experience in Family Medicine residency programs and academic practices. The goals of the clerkship are to help students to integrate basic science and clinical knowledge and to apply them to patient care, to learn skills important in Family Medicine and to experience, first hand, the practice of family physicians. Family Medicine is a specialty with emphasis in breadth rather than depth and is associated with great diversity in patients’ ages and types of medical problems. Continuity, preventive medicine, evidence-based health care, and family issues are emphasized. Minor office procedures, obstetrics, women’s health, sports medicine, community medicine are part of many family practices.

The clerkship syllabus and all clerkship materials can be found on Canvas for current Penn State College of Medicine students.

The clerkship experience is designed for students:

  1. To participate in an outpatient family medicine practice with emphasis in family oriented comprehensive care.
  2. To develop knowledge, skills and attitude for identifying, evaluation, and managing common medical problems as presented in the practice of family medicine.
  3. To develop, expand, and apply basic medical problem-solving skills; areas of emphasis will include medical interviewing, the physical examination, patient management, patient education and health promotion, and appropriate follow-up.
  4. To develop an awareness of the impact of community dynamics, care coordination services, and resources upon the practice of family medicine.
  5. The clerkship experience is designed for students to follow patients longitudinally and establish a mentoring relation with a select few preceptors at their clinical site.

Contact

Contact Us
Dr. Mark Stephens
Clerkship Co-Director
mstephens3@pennstatehealth.psu.edu
(814) 689-6737

Dr. Kristen Grine
Clerkship Co-Director
kgrine@pennsta.psu.edu
(814) 689-4980

Locations

Penn State Medical Group 303 Benner Pike
Benner Pike 31
State College, PA 16801

Penn State Medical Group Colonnade
32 Colonnade Way
State College, PA 16803

Penn State Medical Group Park Avenue
1850 East Park Avenue
Suite 207
State College, PA 16803

Penn State Medical Group Windmere Centre
476 Rolling Ridge Dr.
Suite 101
State College, PA 16801

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