DEPARTMENT:	Medicine
TITLE OF COURSE:	Ambulatory Medicine Elective
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DESCRIPTION AND GOALS OFCOURSE:	Students are given opportunities to evaluate and treat patients in an office setting designed as a model HMO practice. Students are supervised by full-time faculty clinicians, and treat common ambulatory adult diseases while gaining an appreciation for the process and nuances of the office visit. The educational approach is patient-centered, with students discussing each patient with faculty preceptors after the initial student evaluation. Students are encouraged to follow a patient longitudinally over the course of the month. Students should attend all Department of Medicine conferences, and have the option of preparing a lecture on a topic of interest in ambulatory medicine for presentation to the faculty at the end of the rotation.
DURATION:	4 - 8 Weeks
HOURS OF PARTICIPATION:	Full-time
NUMBER OF STUDENTS:	2
LOCATION:	Sinai Hospital of Baltimore
	2435 W. Belvedere Avenue
	Baltimore, Maryland 21215
TIME OF YEAR AVAILABLE:	All year
ADDITIONAL COMMENTS:	Prerequisites - Basic Medicine Clerkship

Contact Dr. Jennifer Morales at 410-601-6843 to schedule a rotation.