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Clinical Practice Support

Clinical Practice includes the Foundations of Clinical Practice (FCP) course for first-year students, which runs from August to mid-January, and Clinical Skills (CS) curricular elements embedded in Phase I blocks which occur after FCP concludes.


Course Directors

Phase I Foundations of Clinical Practice (FCP)

Anderson

Teresa Trogdon Anderson, MD
Associate Professor, Pediatrics                 

Benson

Jennifer Benson, MD
Assistant Professor, Internal Medicine 

 
Phase I Clinical Skills (CS) (Post-FCP Block Activities)

Rao Deepti Rao, MD
Associate Professor, Internal Medicine
Morrison Ann Morrison, MD
Associate Professor, Internal Medicine


TED Curriculum Support Activities

  • Serving on course steering committee
  • Training faculty to precept small groups; providing logistical support for preceptor orientations
  • Assisting with preceptor recruitment, tracking, and reporting process
  • Working with technical support in ongoing development of automated processes
  • Reserving rooms
  • Preparing room & group assignments
  • Ordering and maintaining course books, materials, and supplies
  • Preparing, duplicating, and distributing course syllabus for students
  • Preparing preceptor information and distributing it with syllabus to preceptors
  • Assisting with real patient recruitment and maintaining current list
  • Working with Course Directors and Assessment & Learning in the identification of cases for use in teaching with standardized patients (SPs)
  • Communicating with Assessment & learning regarding the scheduling, training, and use of standardized patients in learning and testing activities
  • Attending and supporting regular course meetings and committee meetings
  • Attending and supporting course large group sessions
  • Setting up rooms for small group activities
  • Communicating with students and preceptors about equipment, activities, assignments, etc.
  • Receiving via email and tracking timely submission of students' written assignments
  • Preparing and distributing student attendance and performance documentation
  • Submitting grades
  • Preparing and sending thank-you letters to patients and preceptors

Gomez
Administrative support is provided by Ernestina ("Tina") Gomez, Program Coordinator,
who can be reached via email at egomez@salud.unm.edu and by phone at (505) 272-8414.

Teacher & Educational Development
MSC08 4540
1 University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM 87131
Basic Medical Sciences Bldg., Room B65
T: (505) 272-8042
F: (505) 272-3997
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