Welcome:

The Loyola Department of Family Medicine welcomes you to the Family Medicine Clerkship. The faculty and staff hope you have an educationally valuable as well as enjoyable experience!

Course/Clerkship Description:

For the 2024-2025 academic year, the Family Medicine clerkship is six weeks in length, beginning with one day of orientation and concluding with the online clerkship exam.

Through your Family Medicine experience you will:

1.     Learn about common ambulatory problems encountered by family physicians.

2.     Understand the primary care physician's role in patient care.

3.     Implement a biopsychosocial model in caring for patients.

4.     Implement health promotion and disease prevention in caring for patients.

Since Family Medicine is largely an ambulatory-based specialty, the clerkship focuses primarily on ambulatory experiences. However, family physicians do maintain continuity of patient care from the office to the hospital and therefore your experience may include some time spent in the hospital making rounds on the practice's patients, taking call, or assisting with a delivery. During your rotation, you will quickly realize that primary care medicine is different from the hospital world.

We have selected a variety of Family Medicine sites and physicians to participate in your educational experience. Although we expect your experiences to vary based on your setting, all locations should provide a quality experience.

Finally, we cannot emphasize strongly enough how important your safety and concerns are to us.

If you are experiencing any problems during the clerkship, please alert us immediately.