First & Second Year Programming

Core Curriculum:

Family Medicine faculty teach in the following courses in the first and second year:

  • Introduction to Clinical Medicine (ICM-1) FALL:Interviewing
    • Course Director Suzanne Mitchell, MD – Department of Family Medicine
  • Introduction to Clinical Medicine (ICM-1) SPRING:Advanced interviewing, introductory exam skills and    clinical placements
    • Course Director Elizabeth Ferrenz, MD- Department of Family Medicine
  • Introduction to Clinical Medicine (ICM-2):Comprehensive exam skills, and placements
    • Course Director Christine Phillips, MD Department of Internal Medicine
  • Integrated Problems (IP-1) FALL and SPRING Integrated Problems (IP-2) FALL and SPRING
    • Course Director Megan Young, MD Department of Internal Medicine
  • Essentials of Public Health
    • Course Director Cheryl McSweeney, MD, MPH, Department of Family Medicine

Students who are in the Action and Mentorship Project (AMP) track have priority placement with Family Medicine preceptors in ICM and IP.

Enrichment:

Healer’s Art

The Healer’s Art is a spring semester enrichment activity directed towards first and second year medical students that addresses the human dimension of medicine. Major themes of the course include:

  • Sustaining idealism and altruism
  • Medicine as a calling
  • Cultivating compassion
  • Healing loss
  • Learning tools to prevent stress and burnout

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