MEDI881B

038171

This course is open only to students formally admitted in the Rural Health Professions Program. Successful completion of Rural Health Professions Program I is required.

Goals/Objectives:
The Rural Health Professions Program (RHPP) was designed to provide medical students with quality educational experiences in selected rural settings. The goals of this course are as follows:

Continue development of clinical patient care skills
Understand the public health and medical care issues in a rural community
Investigate the range of factors that influence individual, family health and community health care
Develop a working knowledge of community-based health and social support services and resources, and learn how to draw upon these
resources in caring for patients

Format:
Students will participate in patient care providing service in the practices of their preceptors. In addition, students will interact with social service and other health care agencies to gain a more complete knowledge of services available. Students will work with their assigned physician preceptors in their practices located in rural Arizona. Students will compare/contrast experiences with rural setting with that of an academic health center.

Evaluation Methods:
Assist in the provision of patient care at a level congruent with training. Complete electronic RHPP Final Evaluation form. Physician preceptors will complete an evaluation of students' performance and submit to the RHPP administration.

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