Educational Goals

  • Foster development of advanced problem-solving skills and patient care efficiency
  • Provide primarily ambulatory patient care experience in family medicine
  • Care of the patient with common problems
  • Care of the patient with multiple and complicated problems
  • Didactic lectures and discussions
  • Observe and evaluate laboratory and x-ray tests appropriate for patient care
  • Provide appropriate patient education and health promotional materials
  • Interact with behavioral science faculty, as appropriate for patient care
  • Gain patient care experience in on-site specialty clinics

Housing

AHEC student-housing is available on a limited and first-come first-served basis. Students from non-affiliated and out of state schools will be charged $20 per night for housing.

 
Deana Spexarth
CEAS Scheduling Coordinator

SR-AHEC Family Medicine Residency
1601 Owen Drive
Fayetteville, NC 28304-3482
(910) 678-7259 telephone
(910) 678-0115 fax

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Program Description

  • Affiliated with Duke University Medical Center
  • Fully accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME)
  • Affiliated with Nova SE University
  • Fully Accredited by AOA
  • Patient care in a supervised setting in the Family Medicine Center or Specialty Clinic
  • Opportunities to work with Family Medicine faculty and upper level residents

 

Student Objectives

  • Demonstrate clinical skills necessary to obtain a focused history and physical exam on patients commonly encountered in a family medicine setting
  • Determine differential diagnoses and select the most likely diagnosis for patients commonly encountered in a family medicine setting
  • Select lab and x-ray studies necessary to diagnose clinical problems commonly encountered and know the cost of each
  • Acquire a family medicine perspective of consultant selection and interaction
  • Define and discuss the terms comprehensive, continuous, and cost effective as they relate to ambulatory care in family medicine