MCLIN 120 - PRIMARY CARE ELECTIVE

[160 Hours]

The Area Health Education Centers (AHECs) of Louisiana are community based non-profit organizations whose primary responsibility is to improve the quality and distribution of health care personnel within the state of Louisiana. The purpose of this introductory four-week elective is to provide medical students and opportunity to observe medicine as it is practiced by primary care physicians in a rural or inter-city underserved ambulatory care environment. This elective offers five primary care clinical specialties: Internal Medicine, Family Medicine, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Pediatrics, and General Surgery.