Family Medicine Clerkship Course Description (FM01)
A required four-week clinical clerkship in Family Medicine is offered at the Hubert Humphrey Comprehensive Health Center which offers a wide variety of different patient demographics.
The goal of this clerkship is for the student to learn family-centered primary health care that is humanistic, comprehensive, cost-effective, continuous, and sensitive to psychosocial, ethical, and financial issues. Because family physicians take care of families, the clerkship will include family dynamics, the family's influence on health, and the impact of illness on the family.
Our clerkship provides an opportunity for students to learn about the diagnosis and management of patients with common problems. Students will be expected to learn a comprehensive approach to the patient with these problems that entails consideration of etiology, incidence, pathophysiology, clinical presentation, course, prognosis, treatment, and appropriate aspects of patient education, disease prevention, and health promotion. Students should develop sensitivity to social, familial, ethical, legal, cultural, and economic issues encountered in an ambulatory setting.
The clerkship is a predominantly ambulatory-based experience. Students see patients within the ambulatory setting. All the students are scheduled to attend lectures, discussions and workshops held on Wednesdays at the clinic. These sessions are designed to be interactive and to promote enjoyment in learning. All the students are scheduled to attend didactic sessions at UCLA every Friday. There are no calls.
The final evaluation of the student is based on clinical performance at the assigned site, a final written exam, participation in the didactic group, and a case write-up.
Evaluation and Grading:
Students evaluate the clerkship through the standard UCLA evaluation system. Feedback is provided to the clerkship twice in a year.
Faculty evaluation of students and Clerkship Director grading is done via the electronic evaluation system. The criteria used in determining the final grade are the ward evaluation, oral presentation and a written examination. Mid-cycle evaluation of students is provided for improvement of performance.
Criteria for Letters of Distinction
“Pass with Letter of Distinction” will be given to those students who achieve a score on the written examination above the mean, whose evaluation is in the outstanding range for all assessed categories and who excel in ALL of the following areas:
1. Demonstrated ability to apply basic medical knowledge to clinical scenarios.
2. Demonstrated skill in performing, presenting and documenting history and physical examinations.
3. Demonstrated ability to critically evaluate and integrate data in seeking solutions to identified problems.
4. Demonstrated ability to formulate a sound differential diagnosis.
5. Demonstration of interest and responsibility in participating in patient care.
6. Demonstrated ability to work as a team and communicate effectively with other staff, including nursing, attending and house staff.
7. Demonstrated ability to establish rapport with patients and families.
8. Active and consistent participation in lectures and teaching sessions.
9. Evidence of general inquisitiveness, thoroughness, responsibility and professionalism.
10. Presence of a positive general attitude during the clerkship.
Hospital Sties |
Site Directors: |
Coordinator |
Hubert Humphrey Comprehensive Health Center (MLK FM01) |
Jorge Bernardez, M.D. |
Ricardo Vega |