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Ambulatory Community Selective:  Pediatric Option

Requirements and Schedule: Pedi ACS requires 20 full days.  The daily schedule must be negotiated between the preceptor and the student. No more than one half-day per week can be scheduled  for reading, studying, or completion of assignments. Saturday or evening work can be substituted for a weekday, but only for clinical activity or community activity, not for reading-study-module work. Link here for the absence policy.   Suggestion and Request:  take photos of yourself at your community site, with your preceptor, or at your service-learning activity with children.  We'll add them to our website.   Clinical Activities with the community preceptor 50-75 %  time in patient care activities in an outpatient setting (i.e. after you take out the required days for community agencies and practice manager - see below-- this comes to at least  20-26  half-days per rotation - most students will want to do slightly more). Negotiate about hospital rounds, medical staff meetings, civic activities Submit to the community preceptor at least two clinic notes per half-day session.  The student should expect feedback on some, but not all, of these notes. Learn about the life of your community preceptor and complete Module 1. Identify one patient encounter significant to your learning and Complete Module 3 (see below) Healthcare Systems Learning  (Systems-Based Practice):  Complete Module 2 (see below).  For this activity, it will be important to schedule 1-2 half-days per rotation to work with the practice manager and nursing staff.   Community Activities (see Module 4 below) Each student is expected to engage with at least community agencies serving children, youth and/or families.  AHEC.  one half-day per rotation should be spent with an AHEC staff member, learning about AHEC .   The AHEC coordinators are the ones who arrange for the student's pairing with the community preceptor.  AHEC is also involved in a variety of community activities, which may be available to you for your service learning requirement  (read on). WIC.  one half-day per rotation should be spent at a WIC office for students working in Galveston County, it is necessary to register as a volunteer with the Galveston County Health District before visiting a WIC office.  Follow this link to learn the required steps for volunteering:  to volunteer with GCHD. for students in other communities, your community pediatrician and/or your AHEC coordinator should be able to connect you with WIC in this community. Service Learning.   Two half-days per week (8 half-days per rotation) are to be spent in reflective volunteering with one or more agency:  link here for answers to most of your questions about this requirement , link here for possibilities/options (previous student activities) link here for student reflections                                          Oziel Ortiz, Class of 2008,  teaching an elementary science class. Sample Schedule (only a suggestion)     sun mon tue wed thu fri sat       clinic community  clinic  clinic clinic       clinic community one-week AHEC one-week  WIC two-weeks more clinic clinic two weeks practice manager two weeks more clinic   *community:  one 1/2 day per rotation with AHEC; and with WIC,  8- half-days with another agency Pre-rotation Recommendations. Prior to arriving in the community, the student should take these steps: In the two weeks before....   consider what type of volunteer service you are interested in pursuing?  Some agencies require volunteer registration and background checks. If you can take care of this before you arrive at the clinic the first day, you have more time to volunteer.  If you cannot take are of this beforehand, make plans to do so the fist day of the rotation.  Are you interested in services to underserved? where can you volunteer to pursue that interest?  Are you interested in services to abused?  or homeless?  do you want to volunteer in a school?  with very young children?  or older?  health education?  career guidance? faculty in-service?   Do you know what after-school opportunities exist in this community?  are there an youth who need basic first-aid training? Week Before:  Contact the practice to confirm you are coming and determine the expected arrival time on the first Monday. Week Before:  Make an effort to communicate with the AHEC representative to schedule a half-day visit during your time in the community.   The AHEC representative may be helpful in helping you identify community agencies which match your interests and passions.  Locating your AHEC representative: location AHEC coordinator contact info Brazoria, Chambers, Galveston, Hardin, Jefferson, Liberty, Matagorda,  Orange counties Coastal AHEC Shontel Minor 409-933-0021, sminor@cahectx.org Harris  (i.e. Houston), Fort Bend, Montgomery,  Waller Counties Greater Houston Area AHEC: Alex Reyna areyna@ghahec.org, 713-592-6411 Austin Area Capitol Area AHEC Coordinator, Brian Sullivan,  512-472-8921, bsullivan@capitalahec.org San Antonio South Central AHEC Paula Winkler, M.Ed. winklerp@uthscsa.edu University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio 210-567-7818 Lubbock area West Texas AHEC Pam Danner, MBA Director of Rural Health, Texas Tech 806-743-1338 pam.danner@ttuhsc.edu http://www.westtexasahec.org Corpus Christi Belinda Flores, RN 361-902-6570 belinda.flores@christushealth.org For other AHEC regions, link here to Regional AHEC contacts. REQUIRED SUBMISSIONS: Submit to the community preceptor at least two clinic notes per half-day session.   Submit to both course directors at least four (4) e-mails during the rotation: Gayani Silva, MD, gsilva@utmb.edu ; Virginia Niebuhr, PhD, vniebuhr@utmb.edu Week 1 (Friday):  We want to hear from you about the schedule you have negotiated,  your service learning plans, and the dates you have scheduled with AHEC and WIC. If you are having any  difficulty with any of the scheduling, we should hear about it by today.  Week 2 (Friday):  send a quick e-mail just to let us know what you have been doing. Week 3 (by 9:00 PM Wednesday): two attachments             Module 1: Life of a Pediatrician             Module 2: Systems-Based Practice   Week 4 (by 9:00 PM Wednesday): two attachments             Module 3: Case Report            Module 4: Service Learning UNote about hyperlinks:  if this website is down, or any hyperlink broken or website resource unavailable, thus affecting your ability to compete the assignment,  you must let us know by e-mail at least two hours before the due-deadline.  If we do not receive such an e-mail, we will not be sympathetic to your report that "I couldn't finish the module because a website was down."