The Family and Community Medicine Third-Year Clerkship utilizes a community-oriented family medicine problem-solving conceptual approach to common clinical problems and prevention. Students are assigned from a variety of clinical sites, urban and rural, located throughout the state of Arizona.
Unique Fourth-Year Elective Opportunities in the Family and Community Medicine Program include: Indian Health Service Preceptorship; Emergency Care in Family Practice; Preceptorship in International Health (Open to UA students only); Global Health: Clinical and Community Care annual course, (open to all Year III or IV, U.S. and Canadian medical students and primary care residents)
Opportunities related to Family and Community Medicine
- Global Health Distinction Track: promotes medical education/experiences in developing nations.
- MD-MPH Programs: a longitudinal curriculum for selected medical students, which provides public health competencies.
- Commitment to Underserved People (CUP) program reinforces volunteer students' primary care interests in inner-city, rural and international practice.
- Rural Health Professions Program (RHPP), selects 15 students per class, placing them with rural preceptors on 3 rotations from Year I through IV.
Diversity in Medicine Visiting Student Scholarship
Scholarship Goals:
- Encourage students who self-identify with groups who are underrepresented in medicine to consider residency at the University of Arizona, College of Medicine Tucson
- Promote student awareness of opportunities in academic medicine
- Provide mentoring and networking for students who identify as underrepresented in medicine
- Provide a stipend of up to $1,500 to help offset cost of housing and travel