Family Medicine Clerkship
Curriculum

Presentations – the Family Medicine Clerkship requires:

• Present a 3-generation pedigree as a part of the case-presentation.

• Choose among 29 "core" Family Medicine cases and present a real clinical scenario with a literature review (details to be provided at orientation)

Family Medicine Topics – see the STFM website for more info on how / why these topics were chosen for the 3rd-year clerkship....

• Arthritis / Arthralgia (html or pdf )
• Asthma / COPD (html or pdf )
• Back Pain (html or pdf )
• Cancer Screening (html or pdf )
• Chest pain (html or pdf )
• Cultural Competence (html or pdf )
• Dementia (html or pdf )
• Depression / Anxiety (html or pdf )
• Diabetes (html or pdf )
• Domestic Violence (html or pdf )
• Dyspepsia (html or pdf )
• Fatigue (html or pdf )
• Frailty (html or pdf )
• Headache (html or pdf )
• Hypertension (html or pdf )
• Immunizations (html or pdf)
• Menopause (html or pdf )
• Menstrual Disorders (html or pdf )
• Nutrition / Obesity (html or pdf )
• Osteoporosis (html or pdf )
• Pain (html or pdf )
• Perinatal Care (html or pdf)
• Rural Care (html or pdf )
• Skin Problems (html or pdf )
• Smoking / Tobacco Abuse (html or pdf )
• Strains / Sprains (html or pdf )
• Stroke / Cerebrovascular Disease (html or pdf )
• URI / Acute Respiratory Infections (html or pdf )
• Vaginal / Urinary Symptoms (html or pdf )

Core Articles/References – (may need Adobe Acrobat Reader):

• PubMed
• American Family Physician
• UpToDate.com

• Family History: The Three-Generation Pedigree

by Daniel J. Wattendorf, Maj, MC, USAF, and Donald W. Hadley, M.S., National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland in AFP 2005

• AMA Family History Resource
• U.S. Surgeon General Family History Initiative

Online Cases Project - STFM - Memphis January 2007

• STFM / FMDRL "Wiki" How-to for iTunes
• ... for Windows Media Player