UofC

A one-on-one student/preceptor experience in rural and urban community clinics in southern Alberta where family physicians deliver generalist care, diagnose and manage most presenting complaints and see patients over time.

A clinical learning experience and continuation of Medicine 330. Students participate in the delivery of patient care in urban or rural community clinics throughout southern Alberta.

A placement in an urban or rural community family medicine practice. Common clinical problems associated with family medicine are emphasized along with the diverse roles, as defined by CanMeds-FM, that a family physician may play in their particular community and for their patients. Two experiential learning projects are completed during the block that explore specific topics relevant to family medicine.

502.01. Family Medicine

502.99. Family Medicine

Develop diagnostic, problem-solving, and management skills by participating in a variety of clinical experiences and formal teaching rounds. Students will have the opportunity to be at the front-lines of patient care, and will often be the primary representative of the medical team to their patients. The clinical experiences will consist of one of the following options:

1. One four-week Medical Teaching Unit rotation, and two two-week rotations on an outpatient/consultative subspecialty.

2. One four-week Medical Teaching Unit rotation and one four-week ICU rotation.

Formal teaching sessions include weekly bedside teaching, formal teaching sessions during protected time, and rotation-specific rounds.

504.01. Internal Medicine

504.99. Internal Medicine

A wide-range of surgical problems and specialties. Students will rotate through one of the following:

1. One three-week General Surgery rotation and one three-week Orthopedic Surgery rotation;

2. One three-week General Surgery rotation and one two-week rotation in either Orthopedic Surgery, Plastic Surgery or Urological Surgery along with one one-week selective in either Urology, Vascular Surgery, Thoracic Surgery, Neurosurgery, Otolaryngology or Trauma Surgery.

506.01. Surgery

506.99. Surgery

Experience in paediatric medicine, emphasizing clinical skills and problem-solving pertaining to common paediatric problems. Will build upon knowledge and skills (including history-taking and physical examination of newborns, infants, children, adolescents) previously gained in the first two years of the medical undergraduate curriculum, and will prepare the student for subsequent residency. The experiences shall be broad-based involving both ambulatory and hospital-based patients, and shall include newborn care, and care of children and adolescents up to the age of 18 years.

508.01. Paediatrics

508.99. Paediatrics

Develop understanding of the psychiatric patient, the skills to perform a psychiatric assessment and the management of psychiatric clinical presentations with integration of basic knowledge obtained from the non-clinical setting. Clerks will perform a variety of assessments including: child and adolescent behavioural and learning assessments, elderly cognitive function, competency assessments, safety assessments for suicide, abuse, and mental status examinations. They will order appropriate investigations including: collateral information, diagnostic imaging, laboratory and psychological and other functional assessments, etc. Four weeks of the rotation are spent in adult psychiatry and two weeks in child psychiatry.

510.01. Psychiatry

510.99. Psychiatry

A broad exposure to women's health and focus on the practice of obstetrics and gynaecology. Develop history taking and physical examinations skills appropriate to obstetrics and gynaecology patients and participate in deliveries, fetal assessment, maternal fetal medicine, colposcopy, low risk obstetrics, infertility and urogynaecology in both outpatient and inpatient settings. Clerks will spend a five-week block at either a community hospital in Calgary or Medicine Hat Regional hospitals, or at a tertiary care hospital.

512.01. Obstetrics and Gynaecology

512.99. Obstetrics and Gynaecology

During these mandatory 14 weeks of clerkship, clerks will choose electives from the range of potential medical domains. Twelve weeks of mandatory elective time must be completed during the clerkship year with a minimum of two weeks on any one elective block.

During extended clerkship student are required to complete mandatory weeks of clerkship electives based on the decision by the Student Academic Review Committee (SARC). Clerks will choose electives from the range of potential medical discipline. Mandatory elective time must be completed during the extended clerkship year with a minimum of two weeks on any one elective block.

515.01. Clerkship Elective 1-26 weeks

515.02. Clerkship Elective 1-26 weeks

515.03. Clerkship Elective 1-26 weeks

Students work daily with a preceptor in the hospital setting. Four areas of anaesthesia will be covered: procedural skills, resuscitation, pharmacology as well as an overview of anaesthesia topics including: preoperative assessment, pain management and others. Clerks will practice intravenous cannulation, bag and mask ventilation, jaw thrust, laryngeal mask and airway insertion and airway and endotracheal intubation in a controlled setting.

516.01. Anaesthesia

516.99. Anaesthesia

Diagnostic and therapeutic challenges offered by emergency medicine, including the assessment and management of life-threatening illness. Access to all elements of health-care delivery, including discharge planning, outpatient care and referrals, direct interaction with consultants, ambulatory care and inpatient facilities, as well as diagnostic imaging. A minimum of six shifts in an urban emergency room at three teaching sites.

522.01 Emergency Medicine

522.99 Emergency Medicine