Primary Care Practicum

For many students, the Primary Care Practicum is a highlight of the Foundations phase. Your experience in your PCP will cement your learning in the Foundations blocks as you see patients with the same conditions. It will also help you maintain the empathy and enthusiasm that brought you to medical school, as you’re reminded by your patients why you chose a career in medicine.

Over the course of the next year, you will complete 15 half days in the same primary care clinic, working with an interprofessional healthcare team in the clinical learning environment. During each half day session, we expect you to perform at least one interview and one physical exam – PCP should be a hands on experience.

After each session, you will complete the PCP tracker to log your session. This must be done within 72 hours so that you still remember what you took away from each session as well as to allow us to make sure students are on track to complete this requirement.

In this Pressbook reading, you will learn about:

• • An Introduction to Primary Care
  • Setting the Agenda 
  • Acute Problem Focused Visits
  • Chronic Disease Management Visits
  • Screening and Prevention Visits
  • Outpatient SOAP notes
  • Outpatient OCPs

Advance through each of these sections using the arrows at the bottom of the page.

If you are ill and cannot attend the in-person workshop, please also review the video in this section: The PCP Experience