Didactic Curriculum

The required text for the junior year is Essentials of Family Medicine, 4th edition, edited by Sloane, Slatt, Ebell, and Jacques, and published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2002.

Essentials of Family Medicine is expected to provide you with core knowledge in the evaluation and management of common ambulatory problems, prevention, and practice management. The final exam in CC 300 will be composed of questions based on the required reading material. The textbook is sold with a compact disc which contains a program with 100 questions designed to test your knowledge. Some of these questions will be included on the final examination. When possible this program (titled "Essentials of Family Medicine") has been installed on the computers in the Comprehensive Care Clinic for your use during slower clinic days.

You are encouraged to use chapters in addition to those we have required, as we expect they will prove useful to you as you care for patients and prepare for other exams, including the National Board Exam. As with all aspects of the curriculum, we welcome your candid feedback on the required and non-required readings.

Students will be responsible for information contained in the following chapters and on the indicated pages: