Pre-requisite: PGY3 Family Medicine Residents
Duration for Elective: 2-4 weeks, flexible to resident’s availability
Rotation Director: Cameron Grange MD
Educational Objective
To provide learners with a comprehensive experience in providing outpatient primary care in a remote rural setting through a high-quality federally qualified health center.
Experiences and Procedures
- The opportunity to work with multidisciplinary primary care clinicians providing comprehensive care to patients of all ages in a rural setting with limited access to resources. Developing diagnostic and treatment plans within the scope of limited resources and long distances to tertiary care sites.
- Work with clinicians in providing geriatric care in FQHC as well as residential care facilities and nursing homes.
- Work with clinicians providing osteopathic primary care services.
- Each of our sites provide the opportunity to work with primary care clinician integrating multidisciplinary services including behavioral health counselling, psychiatric medication management, optometry, dentistry, chiropractic care, podiatry and nutritionist services in co-located settings.
- Perform outpatient procedures such as interarticular injections, shave and punch biopsies, IUD placement and removal, cryotherapy for dermatologic conditions, and laceration repair.
Housing
Housing is available at no cost to the learner. Fish River Rural Health owns a two-bedroom, fully-furnished home located near the University of Maine – Fort Kent. If space is not available with the provided housing then the resident may request funds from MERGE to reimburse for housing in Fort Kent, per the MERGE housing reimbursement policy.
