SYLLABUS
College of Medicine
Course title and number
Term (e.g., Fall 200X)
Meeting times and location
MFCM 801-00B: Family Medicine Outpatient Clinic
Fall 2015 and Spring 2016
8:00am to 5:00pm
1730 Birmingham
College Station, TX
Course Description and Prerequisites
This elective will provide a conducive learning environment for advanced experience in managing common ambulatory
illness. It will expose the student to clinical learning situations that provide an opportunity for the students to enhance
and improve the skills required of a family practitioner, including history, physical, differential diagnosis, evaluation and
treatment regimens. It will illustrate the broad aspects of the practice of Family Medicine as a specialty that strives for
continuity, quality, and comprehensive care, and an emphasis on the patient with a disease in the context of his
environment. It will allow the student to become comfortable with his assessments and develop confidence in his
therapeutic decisions. The student will be mentored in a fashion that clearly demonstrates that the Family Physician
plays a vital role as a patient advocate that honors life.
Instructor Information
Elective Director
Name
Telephone number
Email address
Office hours
Office location
Coordinator
Haywood Robinson, MD
979-764-4043
haywoodrobinson@hotmail.com
By appointment
1602 Rock Prairie Rd, #240
College Station, TX
Name
Telephone number
Email address
Office hours
Office location
Teri Lee
979-845-1574
tlee@medicine.tamhsc.edu
By appointment
2801 Franciscan Drive
Bryan, TX
Learning Outcomes & Objectives
1. Demonstrate the ability to collect, organize, record and verbally communicate patient data in an
ambulatory setting. These include skills in obtaining a medical history, efficiently performing an
adequate and accurate physical exam, recording initial and follow-up data clearly, and selecting
appropriate laboratory, x-ray and other diagnostic studies with an emphasis on cost effectiveness,
patient convenience and safety.
2. Develop an understanding of the role of the family-oriented primary care physician in terms of
responsibility for managing the patient’s health problems, assuming responsibility for continuity of
care, identifying potential effects of the patient’s problems on other family members or on the family
unit as a whole, and utilizing family relationships in managing patient’s problems.
3. Develop an understanding of the role of appropriate specialty or subspecialty consultations and
understanding indications for these consultations.
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4. Develop the technical skills necessary in an ambulatory care setting, including familiarity with drugs
commonly used in ambulatory care patients, performance of common office diagnostic and therapeutic
procedures, ability to carry out patient education at an appropriate level, and be comfortable with
communication skills.
COM Competency Based Learning Objectives: http://medicine.tamhsc.edu/academicaffairs/curriculum/objectives/
Principles and Guidelines for Curriculum Development: http://medicine.tamhsc.edu/policies/pdf/curriculumprinciples-guidelines.pdf
Course Objective:
1. Demonstrate the ability to
collect, organize, record and
verbally communicate patient
data in an ambulatory setting.
These include skills in obtaining
a medical history, efficiently
performing an adequate and
accurate physical exam,
recording initial and follow-up
data clearly, and selecting
appropriate laboratory, x-ray and
other diagnostic studies with an
emphasis on cost effectiveness,
patient convenience and safety.
2. Develop an understanding of the
role of the family-oriented
primary care physician in terms
of responsibility for managing
the patient’s health problems,
assuming responsibility for
continuity of care, identifying
potential effects of the patient’s
problems on other family
members or on the family unit as
a whole, and utilizing family
relationships in managing
patient’s problems.
3. Develop an understanding of the
role of appropriate specialty or
COM Competency
Based Learning
Objectives (CBLO):
Taught
(T) and/or
Evaluated
(E):
Evaluation:
MK1
PC1
PC2
T, E
Attending
Observation
ICS3
PROF 1
PROF10
SBP1
T, E
PROF6
T, E
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Attending
Observation
Attending
Observation
subspecialty consultations and
understanding indications for
these consultations.
4. Develop the technical skills
necessary in an ambulatory care
setting, including familiarity
with drugs commonly used in
ambulatory care patients,
performance of common office
diagnostic and therapeutic
procedures, ability to carry out
patient education at an
appropriate level, and be
comfortable with
communication skills.
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ICS3
T, E
Attending
Observation
Textbook and/or Resource Material
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Learning Resources
1. The Harriet Lane Handbook by Michael A. Barone
2. The Sanford Guide to Antimicrobial Therapy by David N. Gilbert
3. Epocrates Essentials. PDR Symptom Treatment Diagnostic (Optional)
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Learning Activities
1. The student will be responsible for evaluating ambulatory patients, will subsequently discuss with
the family medicine faculty the pertinent history and physical features, the differential diagnosis
and develop a plan of management of the ambulatory patients. If diagnostic or therapeutic
procedures need to be performed, primarily, the student will be responsible for learning these
procedures.
2. Accompany staff physician to meetings in the area of office management, nursing, physician
interactions and monthly staff meetings.
3. Accompany staff physicians on in-hospital rounds when patients were evaluated and admitted by
the student from the outpatient clinic. The student will be expected to participate, yet not be totally
responsible, for the care of these patients.
Textbooks (Required and Recommended Resources)
The following book is recommended for this course.
Title: Essentials of Family Medicine
Author: Sloane, Slatt, Ebell, Smith, Power and Viera
Edition/Copyright: 6th Edition/2012
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
ISBN: 978-1-60831-655-7
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Grading Policies
GRADING SCALE
Satisfactory
70-100
Unsatisfactory
69 and below
Should the course director determine remediation is required, the remediation plan will be at the
discretion of the course director and on a case by case basis depending on the issues involved.
Remediation plans could entail some (or all) of the following examples: Additional clinical shifts,
research papers, presentations, article reviews, exams, directed reading, web-based modules, etc. If the
student performance results in a failure of the elective, it will be recommended that the elective be taken
again in its entirety.
Attendance and Make-up Policies
TAMHSC – COM student handbook states: Students who miss more than 20% of a 4th year elective for any
reason (2 weekdays during a two-week rotation or 4 weekdays for 4 week rotation) will require a remediation
plan.
Course Topics, Calendar of Activities, Major Assignment Dates

Elective Requirements:
Students are required to work two or four weeks in an outpatient clinic setting, Monday through
Friday, from 8:00am to 5:00pm.

Record of Attendance:
Students are required to turn in to the Elective Coordinator a Duty Hours log on the last day of the
elective.
Other Pertinent Course Information
The Family Medicine Outpatient Clinic is for a total of 2 to 4 weeks, Monday through Friday. Only one
student can be scheduled at a time during the same time frame. This will be approved on a first come, first
serve basis.
Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) is a federal anti-discrimination statute that provides comprehensive civil rights
protection for persons with disabilities. Among other things, this legislation requires that all students with disabilities be
guaranteed a learning environment that provides for reasonable accommodation of their disabilities. If you believe you
have a disability requiring an accommodation, please contact Disability Services, in Cain Hall, Room B118, or call 8451637. For additional information visit http://disability.tamu.edu
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Any student with a disability who needs accommodation should inform the instructor at the beginning of the course.
Academic Integrity
For additional information please visit: http://aggiehonor.tamu.edu
“An Aggie does not lie, cheat, or steal, or tolerate those who do.”
College of Medicine
Professionalism and integrity Statement (Academic Honesty and Plagiarism)
All College of Medicine students are required to comply with the student code of conduct and the academic integrity and
honesty standards published in each component’s Student Handbook. Disciplinary action will be taken in accordance with
the policies of each component. Students found guilty of Academic Dishonesty will receive an “F”/Unsatisfactory in the
course. For a full list of actions qualifying as academic dishonesty, please review the College of Medicine Student
Handbook at http://medicine.tamhsc.edu/student-affairs/docs/handbook.pdf.
According to the Aggie Honor System Office, plagiarism is defined as the appropriation of another person's ideas,
processes, results, or words without giving appropriate credit. Intentionally, knowingly, or carelessly presenting the work of
another as one’s own (i.e., without crediting the author or creator). Plagiarism and other academic misconduct definitions
can be viewed on the Aggie Honor System Office website;
http://aggiehonor.tamu.edu/RulesAndProcedures/HonorSystemRules.aspx#definitions.
E-mail Access and FERPA
The College of Medicine is communicating all official information to students through the students’ TAMHSC e-mail
accounts. Please check the account frequently during the semester for updates.
This course is supported with web-based and/or e-mail activities. In order to take advantage of these additional resources
and participate fully in the course, you have been assigned an e-mail address by the Texas A&M Health Science Center.
This e-mail address is for internal use only, so that faculty may communicate with you and the entire class. By registering
for this course, you are agreeing to allow your classmates to have access to this e-mail address. Should you have any
questions, please contact the TAMU’s Office of the Registrar at 979-845-1031.
The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974 (FERPA), which the HSC complies fully, is intended to protect the
privacy of education records, to establish the rights of students to inspect and review their education records and to
provide guidelines for the correction of inaccurate or misleading data through informal and formal hearings. Students also
have the right to file complaints with the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act Office of the Department of Education
in Washington, D.C., concerning alleged failures by the HSC to comply with the act.
Mistreatment of Students
The College of Medicine is committed to providing a positive learning environment in which students can meet their
academic goals based on mutual respect in the teacher/learner relationship. Both parties must be sensitive to the needs
of others and differences in gender, race, sexual orientation, religion, age or disability. As outlined in the Student
Handbook under the section titled Standards of Conduct in the Teacher-Learner Relationship, belittlement, intimidation
and humiliation are unacceptable for effective learning and undermine self-esteem. Breaches involving student
mistreatment may result in a faculty or staff member being sanctioned or the loss of faculty and/or staff appointment.
These policies address student mistreatment involving College of Medicine employees, residents, affiliate staff, or
patients. Mistreatment may be reported through the College of Medicine telephone hotline, 1(855)-397-9835 or through
an online form at http://medicine.tamhsc.edu/current/student-mistreatment-form.html. For a full list of reporting avenues,
please refer to the Student Handbook under the Mistreatment Policy.
Exposure and Occupational Hazard
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The Needle Stick Policy and Bloodborne Pathogen Exposure information for Medical Students may be accessed in the
Student Handbook at: http://medicine.tamhsc.edu/student-affairs/docs/handbook.pdf
Note: More information is available on the aforementioned topics to all students on the College of Medicine website.
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