Students will work in either the Maine Dartmouth Family Practice (MDFP) in Waterville or Family Medicine Institute (FMI) in Augusta, and will see ambulatory patients 6-9 half days per week, both mornings and afternoons. A typical day starts at 8:00 am and ends around 5:30 pm. There is a break from 12 pm – 1 pm for lunch/noon conferences, and Tuesday afternoons are dedicated to in-person education from 1 – 5 pm.
The outpatient clinic experience is a mix of independent work as well as shadowing residents and faculty preceptors. Students have a couple of sessions per week in the office with their own schedule of patients and their own preceptor, with responsibilities modeled after a resident practice. Students consistently enjoy this format which allows them to experience continuity of care, bringing patients back in follow-up in their own schedules. Occasionally the student may have the opportunity to join the rural health center practice of one of the residency’s part-time family practice preceptors, or participate in some other relevant community practice experience such as:
- MOUD clinic
- Acupuncture clinic
- Pediatrics
- Psych
- Behavioral Health
- OB/GYN clinic
- Horizon clinic
- Mabel Wadsworth
- Sports Med