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policy, filing and management. The primary aim is to be acquainted with the current care
system without barriers. They will be observers and can help in care submission with
permission. They are only allowed to discuss with their discipline-specific preceptor and site
moderator.

49. Community Medicine (Ambulatory Internal and Family Medicine)

This is a 4 weeks dual clerkship, where the students will rotate between rural and urban
contexts. Due to the rarity of family medicine clinics, rural general clinics represent a similar
domain, yet less complex than typical family medicine clinics. General practitioners at rural
areas serve the same task as family physicians. Rural context can be exemplified in primary
health care centers, rural satellite hospitals or rural hospitals.

50. Surgical Emergency and Trauma

The Surgical emergencies and trauma clerkship is planned to be conducted at emergency room,
causality room and outpatient clinics as a 4 weeks rotation. It introduces the student to the
workup, diagnosis, treatment in acute surgical context. Students are responsible for the
evaluation and workup of patients in the emergency room (ER) as in the outpatient setting.
51. Neurology

Between 10% and 15% of primary care visits may involve complaints referable to the nervous
system. Neurologic problems may account for up to 1 in 5 hospital admissions. Stroke is the
third leading cause of death in the U.S., and is the single most common cause of long-term
disability, and Alzheimer’s disease is a growing public health problem. For these and other
reasons, education of non-specialists in diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of neurologic
disease is essential to integrated health care delivery.
52. Psychiatry

During this clerkship, students participate in evidence-based and patient-centered inpatient and
outpatient care of patients with psychiatric disorders. Learning activities include preceptor-
supervised clinical experience, clerkship-specific didactics, use of standardized patients, and
self-directed learning utilizing information technology. The clerkship has specified the types
of patients and clinical conditions students need to encounter, and the physical/mental
examination skills, and testing and procedural skills that students need to master.
53. Internal Medicine

This is a 7 weeks clerkship, where the students will rotate between sections of general medicine
especially the inpatient cases or the chronic cases. This course is complementary to the previous
ambulatory internal and family medicine course in year five, which was concerned mainly with
causalities and emergency conditions. During this clerkship, students participate and
demonstrate competence in humanistic and evidence-based inpatient and outpatient care of
patients with common core medical disorders as per attached list.

54. Obstetrics and Gynecology

While on the Obstetrics and Gynecology clerkship, the student is considered an integral part of
the clinical team and has the opportunity for a broad range of clinical experiences in the Labor
and Delivery suite, operating room, ambulatory clinics and inpatient hospital services. Didactic