Introduction to Clinical Medicine - 1st Year

The Department of Family Medicine directs one of the sub options in the first year Introduction to Clinical Medicine course. Each student is placed in a Family Physician's office for fourteen sessions over the spring semester. This one-on-one mentoring program allows students to directly observe and participate in patient care in an outpatient setting in a family physician's office. Students are able to start learning the skills involved in interviewing and examining patients while developing a relationship with one physician in the community. In addition to going to offices, the students are invited to attend a series of workshops where they learn how to take vital signs, use ophthamoscopes/otoscopes, approach well childcare and a variety of other topics.

For more information contact: Nanette Harvey, MD at NCHarvey@bu.edu.

Summer Externship in Family Medicine

This mentorship program is sponsored by the Boston University AHEC and is a joint project of the BU AHEC and the Department of Family Medicine. It pairs a Boston University medical student between her/his first and second year of study with a family physician in a community setting. The student spends approximately thirty hours per week for four weeks immersed in the practice setting. These practices are all over the U.S. In order for students to stay connected to BU faculty and their peers over the course of this experience, they are asked to participate in an interactive online teaching program.

Course Objectives

For more information contact: Nanette Harvey, MD, Summer Externship Program Director at NCHarvey@bu.edu.