4th Year Medical Electives
"Our program has unique features and is specifically designed to train full-scope family doctors to serve in rural and underserved settings. We are a Teaching Health Center, where our residency is combined with a Federally Qualified Health Center. This partnership ensures that our residents will have a broad exposure, and they will be able to serve all patients, regardless of ability to pay. In this commitment, we are better equipped to be leaders in responding to the needs of our neighborhood, town and the region in which we live. Our intimate learning environment emphasizes experiential learning, flexible modules, and comprehensive procedural opportunities with an emphasis on obstetric mastery. Through all we do, we believe strongly that the best family doctors are those who have whole lives, and we continue to model and teach a balance of professional commitment and personal growth that ensures a lifelong career to be proud of. Come and visit our program and our community. You’ll discover a group of dedicated and compassionate people that share in a desire to lead our community by empowering others."
A four-week elective set in the MAHEC Hendersonville Rural Family Medicine Residency Program at the outpatient family health center with inpatient services at Pardee Hospital. Students round in the 200-bed hospital each morning, following several patients and working one-on-one with an upper level residents and faculty. 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 medicine residents on service. As an AI you will work under the supervision of upper level family medicine residents under the guidance of faculty attendings. The AI rotation is also an opportunity for you to get to know our residency and our people and for us to get to know you.
"The program is built to support the next generation of rural physicians. Recognizing ongoing needs, we are committed to developing family physicians with the heart to serve the entire family and lead healthcare transformation. As a true community-based program, we are committed to responding to the needs of our community and the region in which we live. Our more intimate learning environment emphasizes experiential learning, innovative modules, and comprehensive procedural opportunities. Residents and faculty alike share a commitment to teach and learn together, all with the aim of providing improved care. Our supportive group of faculty share the experience of providing great care of patients and one another while living in a beautiful mountain community. This is a program that allows for a wide range of enriching clinical experiences in a personalized setting. By maximizing flexibility in styles for adult learners, residents develop into their best potential while attaining well-rounded skills applicable to any practice setting."
This is a four-week rotation where students will spend time on our busy family-medicine-run hospital service, round in the newborn nursery, and see patients in the family medicine continuity clinic. Daily activities include rounds, conferences, patient work-ups, supervised procedures and other in-patient management. Students will work under the supervision of faculty attendings. Students will have an opportunity to identify the challenges in providing care in a rural community and with limited regional resources. The rotation is also an opportunity for you to get to know our residency and our people and for us to get to know you.
Rural-urban health disparities continue to worsen, especially in maternity care, behavioral health, and substance use disorder. This rotation immerses you in an innovative, multidisciplinary care team housed in a family medicine clinic located in a rural community, where you will be paired with and learn alongside another health professional student. The rotation includes didactics and experiences focused on rural competencies (scarcity, adaptability, resilience) and utilizes the interprofessional team to address social determinants of health. Rural primary care is a team sport—learn the way that you will eventually practice!
Questions? Please email us at studentservices@mahec.net.
