Curriculum Overview
The WRITE clerkship curriculum focuses on several core areas.
1. Clinical Encounters
Clinical Encounters are a list of diagnoses and procedures that students must encounter by the completion of both Patient Care & Explore and Focus clerkships. During your WRITE clerkship, you will have contact with patients with many common problems. As you see patients with these conditions, track your interactions with them by logging them in E*Value.
WRITE has a specified list that students must complete, please refer to the WRITE Canvas page for more details.
2. Workplace Based Assessments (WBA) / Entrustable Professional Activities (EPA)
WBAs are the forms that students and/or their preceptors will fill out assessing your performance on a given EPA. In most cases the students will generate these forms, though preceptors are able to do so if they choose.
Final approval of the WBA can only be given by the preceptor to receive credit. The student dashboard in Qualtrics will show the number of WBAs pending and completed.
EPAs are daily skills and tasks that students perform at their clinic sites. The following EPAs will be completed during the WRITE clerkship:
MEDLIC 601
- Gather a history
- Perform a physical
- Document a clinical counter in the patient record
- Provide an oral case presentation of a clinical encounter
- Prioritize a differential diagnosis following a clinical encounter
- Interpret diagnostic or screening information for common clinical situations
MEDLIC 602
- Prioritize a differential diagnosis following a clinical encounter
- If student achieved a 3 or higher on entrustment scale in MEDLIC 601, will not need to resubmit WBAs for MEDLIC 602
- Communicate effectively with patients and their families
- Recommend diagnostic or screening plans for common clinical situations
- Enter and discuss orders and prescriptions
- Form clinical questions and retrieve evidence to advance patient care
- Provide continuity of care for a patient with a chronic condition
3. Other Required Activities
Assignments
- Community-based project proposal (this can be a continuation of your RUOP/TRUST project)
- FAMED observed patient interview CEX
- PEDS Assignments
- Aquifer cases
- Observed infant/toddler CEX
- Growth chart problem set
- Watch ethical decision-making video
- Vaccine module
- MED advanced care planning CEX
- OBGYN Pelvic exam CEX
- Community-based project reflection
Didactic Sessions
- There will be assigned didactic sessions held via Zoom, including sessions from various subspecialties
- Obstetrics & Gynecology
- Pediatrics
- Psychiatry
- Pain Medicine
- Geriatrics