Practice management: a third-year clerkship experience.
OBJECTIVE
This report describes a curricular experience that introduces the basics of practice management to third-year family medicine students. The curriculum includes evidence-based medicine, managed care concepts and terminology, financial management terms and concepts, laws and legal issues, and insurance and coding.


METHODS
In 1999-2000, a three-session practice management curriculum was implemented in five family medicine third-year clerkship rotations at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Wilmington site. The learning activities included readings, a "quiz show" game, and a patient practice-centered project.


RESULTS
Students reported greater knowledge and confidence in the selected topics. The practice management curriculum was positively evaluated overall.


CONCLUSIONS
This interactive learning module for the family medicine students begins the process of incorporating practice management skills and knowledge.
Junker
Jessie A
JA
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Wilmington 28403, USA. jajunker@med.unc.edu
Miller
Tiffany
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Davis
Michelle S
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D002982:Clinical Clerkship; D005194:Family Practice / Q000193:education*; D006801:Humans; D009657:North Carolina; D010865:Pilot Projects; D011216:Practice Management, Medical