At least 80 patient encounters must consist of adult population patient visits: ages 18-99+

Clinical Specifics:

• Family practice outpatient settings

• Internal medicine Clinic (outpatient)

• Urgent care or Fast Track (Emergency Departments not permitted for NU569). 

  • Note: If you choose an urgent care or fast track setting for NU569, you must complete the entirety of the NU610 (final clinical course) in family practice outpatient setting and may not use a specialty site for NU610.

• Federally Qualified Health Centers focusing on Primary Care

• Boards of Health with primary care clinics

• Retail Clinics (will be evaluated on a case-by-case basis)

Clinical Specifics:

• Family practice outpatient settings

• Internal Medicine Clinic (Outpatient)

• Urgent care or Fast Track (Emergency Departments not permitted for  NU573). 

  • Note: If you choose an urgent care or fast track setting for NU573, you must complete the entirety of the NU610 (final clinical course) in a primary care practice outpatient setting and may not use a specialty site for NU610.

• Federally Qualified Health Centers (focusing on Primary Care)

• Boards of Health with Primary Care Clinic

• Retail Clinics (will be evaluated on a case-by-case basis)

The MN577 clinical experience requires students to see and provide primary care to women across the life span. Women’s health patient visits should include annual well women screening exams including PAP smears, pre- and post-menopausal management, family planning, birth control management, care of gynecologic patients as well as the care of pre-, ante-, and postpartum patients. 

A maximum of 80 hours telehealth is permitted for this experience. Up to 40 clinical hours may be obtained through assisting with labor or delivery, Uro-GYN, GYN-onc, and maternal fetal medicine. Students may attend inpatient surgical procedures including, but not limited to, Cesarean section deliveries.

A minimum of 80 patient encounters must consist of women’s health visits, as described above.

Clinical Specifics:

• OB/GYN practices

• Primary care clinics (such as a family practice that see a considerable amount of  patients for GYN services)

• Planned Parenthood (more than one site may be needed to ensure all course requirements are met)

• Federally Qualified Health Centers (that see a considerable amount of patients for GYN services)

• Boards of Health that include primary care clinics (that see a considerable amount of patients for GYN services)

• An urgent care is not an acceptable site for MN577

The MN581 clinical experience requires students to see and provide primary care to children and adolescents across the lifespan from birth to age 19. Primary care of pediatrics includes well child checks, sick/injury visits, and school/sports physicals. One of the most important aspects of this clinical experience are well child check visits. Well child check visits should include monitoring growth and development, health screenings (such as vision, hearing, lead, etc), administering immunizations, and providing anticipatory guidance. 

A maximum of 80 hours telehealth is permitted for the MN581 clinical experience.

Requires a minimum of 80 patient encounters to consist of pediatric patient visits if rotating within a general primary care/family practice

Clinical Specifics:

• Private pediatric offices

• Family practice clinics with a large pediatric population

• Health departments with a large pediatric population that manage both well children and sick visits

• Pediatric primary care clinics that deal with well child or sick child issues not related to another condition (i.e., no specialty clinics)

• Adolescent sites that do intake and medical management (would need a second site to see additional patients who are younger) such as the following:

  • Juvenile detention centers

  • Mental health facilities

  • Teen clinics

  • School-based health centers

• An urgent care is not an acceptable site for MN581

A maximum of 80 hours telehealth is permitted for this experience.

If rotating within a general primary care/family practice for MN585, a minimum of 80 patient encounters must consist of frail/elderly patient visits: ages 65 and older

Clinical Specifics:

• Family practice settings with a large elderly population

• Nursing homes

• Skilled nursing facilities

• Home health medical practices (providing primary care)

• Hospice

• Internal medicine (outpatient)

• Palliative care

• Geriatric assessment centers

• Rehab where geriatric care is provided

Specialty Sites: Students may request to spend a minimum of 40 hours and up to a maximum of 80 hours in a specialty, outpatient setting. Examples are dermatology, orthopedics, cardiology, oncology, and so forth. No inpatient acute care settings will be approved. Approval for specialty sites is not guaranteed and is contingent on review of prior family practice experience in previous clinical rotation courses. All approvals/denials are final.

*As a reminder, if all your other rotations have been with only one preceptor/site, you will need to fulfill all 160 hours of MN610 with a second preceptor/site (see earlier section “Site & Preceptor Arrangements”).

Clinical Specifics:

• Primary care family practice

• Internal medicine clinic (outpatient)

• Federally Qualified Health Centers focusing on Primary Care

• Boards of Health with primary care clinics

• Retail clinics (will be evaluated on a case-by-case basis)

• Urgent care, Emergency Department (ED), or Fast Track sites will be considered on a case-by-case basis.

  • Fast Track section of ED can be considered for all 160 required hours in MN610.

  • The general ED patient population can be considered for 80 specialty hours in MN610.

  • Important note: If you completed MN569 or MN573 in an urgent care/retail clinic, you will not be eligible to use an Urgent Care, ED, or Fast Track in MN610 and must have a family practice/primary care outpatient setting for all 160 clinical hours in NU610.

• Palliative care (AGPCNP students, specialty site for FNP students)

• Skilled nursing facilities (AGPCNP students, specialty site for FNP students)

• Geriatric assessment centers (AGPCNP students, specialty site for FNP students)

• Hospice (AGPCNP students, specialty site for FNP students)

• Chronic rehab where geriatric care is provided in a non-acute setting (AGPCNP students, specialty site for FNP students)