Waterville, Maine Site Information (FAMILY MEDICINE Clerkship)

Clerkship:

FAMILY MEDICINE
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Location:

Maine-Dartmouth Family Medicine Residency

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149 North Street
Waterville ME 04901

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Megan Barker, MD

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http://www.mainedartmouth.org/

Site Description

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Rural

Meets Diversity Expectation: Yes

Description: Maine Dartmouth is a residency-based family medicine training site serving an economically diverse population. The physicians in this practice have privileges at the Maine General Medical Center's Alfond Center for Health in Augusta. Teaching is provided by both residents, faculty (MD, DO, NP and PA), and community preceptors. Students are based at Waterville, Maine. Students work half days with multiple preceptors, with effort made to allow for continuity in teaching. Some half days students are scheduled with their own patients. In addition, students will be exposed to procedure clinic, OB, ER, and home health services. There may be evening clinic hours. This residency program trains both MD and DO clinicians, thus exposing students to osteopathic medicine.

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Other Learning Opportunities: Migrant worker clinic, travel medicine clinic, nursing home visits, obstetrics, inpatient rounding, nursing homes and geriatrics, and Planned Parenthood. Not every opportunity is available in each block.

Didactics: Students may be asked to attend morning and/or noon resident didactics in addition to the FM clerkship curriculum.

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Patient Encounters: The practice sees a wide diversity of patient of all ages, mostly of lower socio-economic levels. Many patients have complex medical and psychosocial needs.

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Medical Procedures Info: Flex Sigmoidoscopy, Exercise Stress Test, Prenatal, Deliveries, Vasectomy, Colposcopy, Circumcision

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Distance from DHMC: 3 Hours

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Housing Type: Apartment

Shared Housing: Yes

Housing Description: The Residency provides student housing with no expense to you, however in return we must ask that you keep it clean and ask your cooperation with the following:

1. Keep the heat at 60 degrees during the times when no one will be home.(there is a governor on heater)
2. Turn off all lights when you leave for any extended amount of time.
3. Lock all doors before leaving.
4. Keep clean and tidy at all times

You are assigned to either a 2 or 3 bedroom apartment which is furnished with beds, dressers, a television set, internet access, stove, refrigerator, washer and dryer (coin opt), microwave, coffee maker, toaster, an iron and ironing board, silverware, dishes and cooking utensils. Please bring your own full size bed linens, pillows, blankets and towels. You may also want to bring an alarm clock, radio, clothes hangers, flashlight, etc.

A key packet will be waiting for you after 5pm on the Friday BEFORE your rotation starts at the Alfond Center for Health Campus, Maine General Medical Center Security officer. If you arrive between 6:00 AM and 8:00 PM use the Main Entrance, Emergency Department between 8:00 PM and 6:00 AM.

Your key packet will have directions to the student house and welcome letter with instructs where to meet Laurie on your first day of the rotation for Orientation.

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Directions to Site: When you leave MGMC and come to the traffic lights, you will need to go straight across to Henry's Way. Stay to the right when you see the dumpster in the Y of the road. 1st right is to Apt. C - straight up the hill goes to Apt. B. (Plz do not park in front of garage)

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Student Feedback:

Extracurricular Activities: Recreational activities include swimming, kayaking, sailing, canoeing, fishing and hunting. Cold, snowy winters make for excellent downhill and cross-country skiing as well as ice-skating, sledding, and ice fishing. An hour's drive east will bring you to the spectacular rocky coast of Maine. Opportunities to mountain bike, hike, and camp in the area include the Appalachian Mountains of Maine (Baxter State Park, Mt. Katadin, the Bigelow Range, and the Moosehead Lake Region), and the coastal hills (Camden Hills, Acadia National Park). Concerts, theatre productions, and a fine-arts cinema are available locally. A diversity of fine restaurants is within an hour's drive. The local colleges provide additional cultural events. Day trips can be made to larger urban area: Portland is located one hour south; Boston is 2 1/2 hours south; and Quebec is 3 1/2 hours north.

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Area Information: Augusta is a small city with all the amenities of a small city. There are one or two nice restaurants, particularly downtown. Nearby Halowell has live music 7 days a week (at least in the summer), with additional fun things to do. Living in the Belgrade Lakes puts you in the heart of Maine's great outdoors. The lakes themselves provide opportunities for swimming, boating, canoeing, fishing etc. There are many hiking trails and running trails and mountains. In addition, normally difficult-to-get-to-but-well-worth-the-ride Sugarloaf/USA ski area is only an hour or so away. Known as the ""hub"" of central Maine, Augusta is 60 miles from Portland, 72 miles from Bangor, 160 miles from Boston. While the city's population is only 21,000, it is the service center to a large area of some 73,000 people.