Family and Community Medicine (FM)

Introduces students to the medical profession, emphasizing the doctor/patient relationship. Basics of interviewing, physical examination, and clinical decision making, ethical and medical/legal issues, and the role of the family in health care are taught through lectures, readings, and group discussions. Students are also assigned to four rotations with practicing physicians.

Prerequisites: Senior standing or 4th yr. standing Provides students with an opportunity to gain experience with small community health care systems under the guidance of community physicians. Emphasis is placed on rural health issues, primary care, emergency medicine and other medical disciplines in communities in rural Oklahoma.

Prerequisites: Senior Standing Provides students with an opportunity to gain experience with small community health care systems under the guidance of community physicians. Emphasis is placed on rural health issues, primary care, emergency medicine and other medical disciplines in communities in rural Oklahoma.

Prerequisites: Senior Standing A four-week rotation in a non-metropolitan Oklahoma community, under the direct supervision of physicians selected by the College of Medicine.

Prerequisites: Senior Standing Provides students with an opportunity to gain experience with small community health care systems under the guidance of community physicians. Emphasis is placed on rural health issues, primary care, emergency medicine and other medical disciplines in communities in rural Oklahoma.

Prerequisites: Senior Standing Provides students with an opportunity to gain experience with small community health care systems under the guidance of community physicians. Emphasis is placed on rural health issues, primary care, emergency medicine and other medical disciplines in communities in rural Oklahoma.

Prerequisites: Fourth Year Standing. A four-week rotation in a non-metropolitan Oklahoma community, under the direct supervision of doctors selected by the College of Medicine.

Prerequisites: Senior Standing Provides students with an opportunity to gain experience with small community health care systems under the guidance of community physicians. Emphasis is placed on rural health issues, primary care, emergency medicine and other medical disciplines in communities in rural Oklahoma.

Prerequisites: Fourth Year Standing. A four-week rotation in a non-metropolitan Oklahoma community under the direct supervision of physicians selected by the College of Medicine.

Prerequisites: Fourth Year Standing. A four-week rotation in a non-metropolitan Oklahoma community, under the direct supervision of doctors selected by the College of Medicine.

Prerequisites: Fourth year standing. A four-week rotation in a non-metropolitan Oklahoma community, under the direct supervision of doctors selected by the College of Medicine.

Prerequisites: Fourth Year Standing. A four-week rotation in a non-metropolitan Oklahoma community, under the direct supervision of doctors selected by the College of Medicine.

Prequisites: Senior Standing. Provides students with an opportunity to gain experience with small community health care systems under the guidance of community physicians. Emphasis is placed on rural health issues, primary care, emergency medicine, and other medical disciplines in communities in rural Oklahoma.

Prerequisites: Fourth Year Standing. A four-week rotation in a non-metropolitan Oklahoma community, under the direct supervision of doctors selected by the College of Medicine.

Prerequisites: Fourth Year Standing. A four-week rotation in a non-metropolitan Oklahoma community, under the direct supervision of doctors selected by the College of Medicine.

Prerequisites: Fourth Year Standing. A four-week rotation in a non-metropolitan Oklahoma community, under the direct supervision of doctors selected by the College of Medicine.

Prerequisites: Fourth Year Standing. A four-week rotation in a non-metropolitan Oklahoma community, under the direct supervision of doctors selected by the College of Medicine.

Prerequisites: Fourth Year Standing. A four-week rotation in a non-metropolitan Oklahoma community, under the direct supervision of doctors selected by the College of Medicine.

Prerequisites: Fourth Year Standing. A four-week rotation in a non-metropolitan Oklahoma community, under the direct supervision of doctors selected by the College of Medicine.

Prerequisites: Fourth Year Standing. A four-week rotation in a non-metropolitan Oklahoma community, under the direct supervision of doctors selected by the College of Medicine.

Prerequisites: Fourth Year Standing. A four-week rotation in a non-metropolitan Oklahoma community, under the direct supervision of doctors selected by the College of Medicine.

Prerequisites: Fourth Year Standing. A four-week rotation in a non-metropolitan Oklahoma community, under the direct supervision of doctors selected by the College of Medicine.

Prerequisites: Fourth Year Standing. A four week rotation in a non-metropolitan Oklahoma community, under the direct supervision of doctors selected by the College of Medicine.

Prerequisites: Fourth Year Standing. A four week rotation in a non-metropolitan Oklahoma community, under the direct supervision of doctors selected by the College of Medicine.

Prerequisites: Fourth Year Standing. A four-week rotation in a non-metropolitan Oklahoma community, under the direct supervision of doctors selected by the College of Medicine.

Prerequisites: Fourth Year Standing. A four-week rotation in a non-metropolitan Oklahoma community, under the direct supervision of doctors selected by the College of Medicine.

Prerequisites: Fourth Year Standing. A four-week rotation in a non-metropolitan Oklahoma community, under the direct supervision of doctors selected by the College of Medicine.

Prerequisites: Fourth Year Standing. A four-week rotation in a non-metropolitan Oklahoma community, under the direct supervision of doctors selected by the College of Medicine.

Prerequisites: Fourth Year Standing. A four-week rotation in a non-metropolitan Oklahoma community, under the direct supervision of doctors selected by the College of Medicine.

Prerequisites: Fourth Year Standing. A four-week rotation in a non-metropolitan Oklahoma community, under the direct supervision of doctors selected by the College of Medicine.

Prerequisites: Fourth Year Standing. A four-week rotation in a non-metropolitan Oklahoma community, under the direct supervision of doctors selected by the College of Medicine.

Prerequisites: Fourth Year Standing. A four-week rotation in a non-metropolitan Oklahoma community, under the direct supervision of doctors selected by the College of Medicine.

Prerequisites: Fourth Year Standing. A four-week rotaton in a non-metropolitan Oklahoma community, under the direct supervision of doctors selected by the College of Medicine.

Provides students with an opportunity to gain experience with small community health care systems under the guidance of community physicians. Emphasis is placed on rural health issues, primary care, emergency medicine, and other medical disciplines in communities in rural Oklahoma.

Prerequisites: Fourth Year Standing. A four-week rotation in a non-metropolitan Oklahoma community, under the direct supervision of doctors selected by the College of Medicine.

Prerequisites: Fourth Year Standing. A four-week rotation in a non-metropolitan Oklahoma community, under the direct supervision of doctors selected by the College of Medicine.

Prerequisites: Fourth Year Standing. A four-week rotation in a non-metropolitan Oklahoma community, under the direct supervision of doctors selected by the College of Medicine.

Prerequisites: MS 3 or MS 4 Standing This is a two week experience in the primary care sports medicine clinic during which students will become familiar with common musculoskeletal diagnoses and treatments. Depending on rotation dates, opportunities may arise for students to participate in sports event coverage, joint injections, casting, and other sports medicine procedures.

Prerequisites: MS3 or MS4 standing in the College of Medicine This course aims to provide students with experience in the field of physical medicine and rehabilitation (PM&R) through exposure to patients with physical impairments or disabilities affecting the brain, spinal cord, nerves, bones, joints, ligaments, muscles, and tendons. (F, SP, SU III, IV) Rotation

Prerequisites: Must be MS4 and must have written approval of Primary Care Sports Med Program Director. May be repeated; maximum credit 320 hours. This course serves as an introduction to sports medicine for students planning a career in primary care. Emphasis is placed on musculoskeletal clinical skills, diagnosis and treatment of common injuries/diseases. Four-week rotation only offered in July and May. For two-week or four-week course any other months, the student must receive written permission by the Primary Care Sports Medicine (Dr. Brian Coleman) at least 30 days prior to the rotation.

Prerequisites: Promotion to year 3 in program May be repeated; maximum credit 320 hours. An ambulatory Family Medicine experience supervised by departmental faculty, resident physicians and community volunteer faculty physicians where students learn diagnosis and management of undifferentiated complaints, acute, and chronic illnesses. Health promotion, disease prevention, longitudinal care, focused patient evaluation, clinical decision-making, practice management and evidence based medicine are emphasized during didactics. (Fall, Spring & Summer, III)

The student works with the Department of Family Medicine faculty and residents of the Enid family practice residency in Enid, Oklahoma. A broad exposure to the principles and practices of family medicine are emphasized in the context of a community setting.

A clerkship experience that utilizes the faculty and residents of OU/Lawton Family Practice Residency Program in Lawton, Oklahoma. This rotation allows for clinical experiences and educational oportunities in teh full range of family medicine, using a community-based training program.

Designed to introduce the student to family systems research, with exposure to research paradigms and information concerning the relationship of family systems and health/illness. In addition the student will be involved in ongoing research projects being carried out by the family medicine faculty.

Prerequisites: Family Medicine Clerkship. To provide students with foundational knowledge about how best to make decisions about individual patients, and the opportunity to apply the methods of decision theory to analyze a perplexing clinical situation.

Prerequisities: Completion of Medicine and Pediatric Clerkship or by permission. Clinical research in areas of interest in family medicine, such as natural history of diseases, outpatient management of certain diseases, patient compliance, preventive health care, epidemiology.

Prerequisites: Fourth Year Standing/Passing score on USMLE Step 1 examination. Emphasis on outpatient medicine with special focus on evidence-based and patient-centered approaches, psychosocial issues, and comprehensive case management. Well-suited for students planning to engage in a busy practice where sound clinical skills and clinical decision making principles are paramount. Excellence in academia, combined with managed care survival skills.

Course includes inpatient, outpatient, and nursing home experience with assessment and management of frail elderly patients. Students gain experience working as interdisciplinary team and attend bi-weekly didactic conferences. Individualization of experience possible.

Prerequisites: Fourth Year Standing. May be repeated; maximum credit 160 hours. Curriculum will be individualized to student's needs/goals. The core of each student's experience will include evaluation/management of patients under preceptor supervision. Currently available areas of focus include: obstetric care, sports medicine, geriatrics, inpatient care, family systems, and clinical decision making.

Prerequisites: Student must be in good academic standing in order to participate in this elective. Student will volunteer to work 80 hours throughout all four years at assigned charity clinics under appropriate supervision. Students must complete their obligatory hours by May 1st of their fourth year. Students must complete a narrative "Reflection" or approved "Community Project" upon completion of the designed hours of service.

Course will be flexible, individualized program based on a defined set of competencies for the use of computers in medical practice. Program will build on the student's identified needs and interests. topics include but are not limited to DOS/Macintosh, electronic medical records, internet, telemedicine, practice management, literature searching.

Prerequisites: Student must be in good academic standing in order to participate in this elective. Students will volunteer to work 80 hours during the third and fourth years at assigned charity clinics under appropriate supervision. Students must complete their obligatory hours by May 1st of their fourth year. This service would be in addition to any service hours applied to the CHI elective.

Prerequisites: 4th Year Standing Physicians need to understand the evidence for their diagnoses and treatments, and to participate in communicating evidence-based recommendations to other physicians. This MS 4 rotation provides experience searching and summarizing the medical research literature to answer a question that primary care providers have stated that they would like to know.

Prerequisites: Third-year medical student in good standing at the School of Community Medicine. This course is a clinical experience with adult inpatients with non-surgical illnesses at various levels of activity and complexity. Students will learn the application of the clinical method, development of a therapeutic relationship, effective medical record-keeping, and efficient utilization of resources. (R; III)

Prerequisites: Student must have written approval of OU Department Course Director May be repeated; maximum credit 320 hours. An off-campus elective is defined as work not at the Health Sciences Center, College of Medicine-Tulsa, or in a formally affiliated hospital; nor under the direct supervision of a member of the full-time faculty of the College of Medicine. A statement from the course director of the proposed elective concerning the supervision and grading of student's experience and a detailed course description of the proposed elective are required.

Prerequisites: Approval of Associate Dean, College of Medicine and Department Head. May be repeated with change of subject matter, multiple enrollment within same term, maximum 320 clock hours. Topics of special nature or of unusual interest to the individual student.