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)
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Teresa Trogdon Anderson, MD
Associate Professor, Pediatrics
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Jennifer Benson, MD
Assistant Professor, Internal Medicine
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Phase I Clinical Skills (CS) (Post-FCP Block Activities)
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Deepti Rao, MD
Associate Professor, Internal Medicine |
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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
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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.
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