a four-week elective with Mission Hospitals in Asheville

Students serve as acting interns along with the Family Medicine patient care team on both the Family Medicine hospital service and the Medicine hospital service at this 500 bed teaching hospital. Two weeks will be spent on each service. Supervision will be by MAHEC Family Medicine Residency Faculty and Asheville Hospital specialists teaching physicians. Daily activities include rounds, conferences, patient work-ups, supervised procedures and other in-patient management. Students are included in the call schedule with the family practice residents on service (1 day per week and 1 weekend call). Optional activities: area nursing homes and other community resources and patient care at the MAHEC Family Health Center on evenings/weekends.

a four-week elective set in the MAHEC Family Medicine Residency Program Health Center in Asheville.

Students work one-on-one with the full-time faculty, caring for private patients in a residency practice with 20,000 active patients/ 2400 visits a month. Schedule includes supervised patient care, evening/weekend walk-in clinic, video precepting, weekly out-patient review, pre-natal clinic, triage phone review and hospice. Optional schedule includes call or hospital rounds with residents, OB call, hospital conferences, practice management and a variety of community agencies.

a four week elective set in the MAHEC Family Medicine Residency Rural Track at the Family Health Center in Hendersonville.

Students round in the 200-bed hospital each morning following several patients and working one-on-one with a third year resident and faculty. The rest of the time students work one-on-one with the full-time faculty caring for private patients in the residency clinic that has 2500 active patients/ 400 visits a month. Depending on season and interest, other activities include a home visit, outpatient laboratory skills, seeing patients in a migrant community health center, community outreach such as migrant farm-worker camp visits, and working with a midwife. A student project is encouraged but optional, as is call once a week with a 3rd year resident.

A four week elective: two weeks in Asheville and two weeks in Honduras.

The first two weeks are in Asheville, NC and include course work, group discussions, and several clinical experiences working with migrant populations in free clinics, the Health Department and a midwife practice that works primarily with Spanish speaking patients. For the last two weeks, we will be working as a team in a remote site in the mountainous part of Honduras –Concepcion, Intibuca with Shoulder to Shoulder. STS is a not-for-profit, NGO (Non-governmental organization) that has been committed to the area of the past 18 years. For more information, go to their web site at www.shouldertoshoulder.org. Cost is approximately $1400 for airfare and expenses in Honduras. Spanish speaking skills are encouraged, but not necessary. Housing in Asheville provided.