Contact

Tawana Dawkins, Residency Coordinator
 SR-AHEC Family Medicine Residency
 1601 Owen Drive
 Fayetteville, NC 28304-3482
 (910) 678-7260 telephone
 (910) 678-0115 fax
 Tawana.Dawkins@sr-ahec.org

Housing

Free housing adjacent to the Family Medicine Center is available to clerkship students.

Program Description

• Affiliated with Duke University Medical Center
• Fully accredited by the Accreditation Council or Graduate Medical Education (ACGME)
• Affiliated with Nova SE University
• Fully Accredited by AOA
• Patient care in a supervised setting in the Family Medicine Center or Specialty Clinic
• Opportunities to work with Family Medicine faculty and upper level residents

Student Objectives

• Demonstrate clinical skills necessary to obtain a focused history and physical exam on patients commonly encountered in a family medicine setting.
• Determine differential diagnoses and select the most likely diagnosis for patients commonly encountered in a family medicine setting.
• Select lab and x-ray studies necessary to diagnose clinical problems commonly encountered and know the cost of each.
• Acquire a family medicine perspective of consultant selection and interaction.
• Define and discuss the terms comprehensive, continuous, and cost effective as they relate to ambulatory care in family medicine

Educational Goals

• Foster the development of advanced problem-solving skills and patient care efficiency.
• Provide primarily ambulatory patient care experience in a family medicine center.
• Care of the patient with common problems
• Care of the patient with multiple and complicated problems
• Didactic lectures and discussions
• Observation and evaluation of laboratory and x-ray tests appropriate for patient care
• Providing appropriate patient education and health promotional materials
• Interaction with behavioral science faculty, as appropriate for patient care
• Patient care experience in on-site specialty clinics