Table 1 An Overview of the Community Primary Care Preceptorship Modules with Content and Timeline
| Â | 1st Year of CPCP 2nd Year of CPCP Second year of medical school | 2nd Year of CPCP Second year of medical school Third year of medical school | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Â | Module 1: You, the Medicine primary MD | Module 2: The Art of | Module 3: The Practice of Medicine | Module 4: Disease Prevention |
Focus | Primary care basics | Communicating with the patient | Evidence based medicine in the office setting | Preventable diseases: incidence/prevalence in diverse populations |
Core Content | Introduction to office-based practice – people and procedures | Difficult patient-communication issues and seeing the patient's point of view | Approaching differential diagnoses | Childhood injury, advanced directives, smoking prevention, metabolic syndrome, secondary complications of diabetes, clinical reminder systems |
Skill Development | Charting, writing prescriptions, understanding health insurance | Understanding informed consent, performing a mini-mental status exam, maintaining patient confidentiality, addressing noncompliance, identifying hidden agendas | Developing a diagnostic and therapeutic plan for common complaints | Counseling patients for behavior change, performing a foot exam on a diabetic patient, working with other health-care professionals in preventing injury, correctly installing a child safety seat, understanding |
Student Tasks | Submit a SOAP note, practice prescription writing, and complete a practice profile of preceptorship site | Report on how preceptor handles difficult patient-care communication issues | Review patient cases with common illnesses and identify appropriate care based on clinical evidence | Create a patient education handout written at an appropriate reading level |