This six-week clerkship provides supervised exposure to the evaluation and management of patients at the ambulatory setting of family medicine with undifferentiated health problems. Introduction to evaluation and management of health problems requiring hospitalization which routinely confront the Family Physician. The fundamentals of problem-solving in these clinical settings emphasized in all patient-care encounters. Emphasis on concepts of health maintenance and comprehensive and longitudinal health care in the setting of the family. The student's clinical exposure is provided by family medicine residency programs and private group practice teaching sites.

Family medicine residency teaching sites are located at: Medical College of Georgia, Augusta; The Medical Center, Columbus; Memorial Health University Medical Center, Savannah; Floyd Medical Center, Rome; Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital, Albany and Dwight Eisenhower Army Medical Center, Fort Gordon.

Group practice teaching sites are located in Augusta, Blackshear, Jesup, Villa Rica, Tifton, Thomson, Waynesboro and Moultrie, GA and Edgefield and North Augusta, SC.

George A. Nixon, M.D.
Course Director
Associate Professor
Dept. of Family Medicine
Medical College of Georgia
Dept. of Family Medicine
HB 3033
Augusta, GA 30912
(706) 721-4674 
(706) 721-0927 (fax)

Libby Poteet
Clerkship Coordinator
Dept. of Family Medicine
Medical College of GA
HB 3035
Augusta, GA  30912
(706) 721-4075
(706) 721-0927 (fax)