Medical Student Education

Core Clerkship in Family Medicine

The Clerkship in Family Medicine is a required clerkship for all students of Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Students learn to recognize and treat a broad array of common medical problems; manage acute and chronic medical conditions; foster health promotion and practice preventive medicine; form therapeutic alliances with patients and develop treatment plans; and place illness in the context of the whole patient.

Maria Teresa Santos, M.D.

Director, Medical Student Education

Oladimeji Oki, M.D.

Assistant Director, Medical Student Education

Electives

The Department of Family and Social Medicine offers a variety of medical student electives.