Virtual Rotation: Family Medicine
This elective in family medicine provides students supervised responsibility for patient care, exposing the medical student to the core principles in general Family Medicine with further development of clinical reasoning and patient management. Students will act in the role of a fourth year medical student with supervision by Department of Family Medicine and Residency Program teaching faculty. Students will evaluate patients with a variety of common chronic and acute complaints in a wide range of age groups, and make initial management recommendations in conjunction with their supervising physician. Patients will be seen by telemedicine for initial evaluation or continuity of care. Students will learn about the community in which they serve patients and how that community and the individual’s social determinants of health may affect health care outcomes. Students may participate and assist in common outpatient procedures and participate in point of care diagnostic testing. Students should also demonstrate and improve their ability to work in a team environment with Nursing, Social Workers and other para-medical personnel. This Elective would be beneficial for student interested in any primary care specialty.
WHO SHOULD ENROLL
Medical Students
International Medical Students
HOW IT WORKS
COURSE LENGTH
2 to 4 WEEKS
DURATION
6 HOURS PER DAY
CLASS SIZE
UNLIMITED
EFFORT
6 HOURS PER DAY
FORMAT
100% ONLINE
MODEL
FACULTY-LED
COURSE OBJECTIVES
√ Using background medical knowledge and clinical reasoning to form hypotheses related to patient problems in general family medicine.
√ Obtaining an accurate and pertinent patient centered medical history from all appropriate available sources and to record it in a complete, concise and literate manner.
√ Understand the principles of preventive medicine including patient education and USPSTF screening recommendations.
√ Write up each new or transferred patient, presenting patient data in the approved format and including an assessment (differential diagnosis and the reasoning that dictates the diagnostic and management approach) and plan for each problem.
√ Effectively utilizing the library and electronic resources to research the problem list and to demonstrate proficiency with critical reading skills.
√ Presenting during formal rounding or ambulatory setting.
√ Developing an understanding of the psychosocial, educational, economic, cultural and religious backgrounds of patients that underlies their diverse belief systems in the approach to the management of individual patient.
WHAT YOU’LL EARN
✓ Certificate of Completion from ZENCEY Telehealth Institute
✓ Letter or Recommendation from Faculty
FACULTY
Pete Gutierrez, MD
Director of Primary Care
Associate Dean and Founding Chair of the Physician Assistant Program at the Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine at Florida International University.
Professor at Nova Southeast University, Ross University School of Medicine and American University of Antigua.
In 1998, he helped start the Physician Assistant Program at Miami Dade College, which he later directed and was named Dean of the School of Health Sciences.
In 2009, he helped launching the Miami Rescue Mission Health Clinic. Since the opening of the first MRM clinic in 2009 Dr. Gutierrez has expanded the clinic with offices in Pompano, Hollywood and a site at Miami Dade College Medical Campus and Victoria Hospital. Under his direction, the clinic serves homeless and under-served residents, while providing a clinical site for physician assistant, nursing, and health science students to gain hands-on experience.
In 2012, he received the “Healthcare Heroes Award”” from the Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce for his extraordinary impact on the South Florida health care community.