Family Medicine Rotation

Collaboration between family practitioners and dentists is integral to providing comprehensive and quality patient care.  Dental residents will receive instruction in physical diagnosis and participate in formal courses on physical evaluation and medical risk assessment.  Specifically, residents will participate in taking, recording, and interpreting a complete medical history, conducting and interpreting the physical examination, use of laboratory tests and other tools as diagnostic methods, and learning specialized skills necessary to identify important and often complex interrelationships between oral and medical systemic disease.

Residents spend five sessions with a family medicine preceptor in the private practice setting.  Opportunities  to interact with family medicine residents in addition to receiving ongoing preceptor feedback promotes a supportive learning environment.  Dental residents will recognize the importance of patient assessment and physical evaluation skills as the foundation for developing a holistic approach to patient care.