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Third Year Students

We currently schedule third-year medical students from UT-Health San Antonio and the University of the Incarnate Word to complete their clerkship rotations with our program. As a third-year medical student, you will be working primarily in our continuity clinic, the CHRISTUS Santa Rosa Family Health Center on the 3rd floor of Medical Plaza 3 by CHRISTUS Santa Rosa Westover Hills Hospital.

Our goal is to introduce and expose you to the amazing specialty of family medicine. Rotations are traditionally 6 weeks in length and include rotating with our residents and faculty in clinic, participation in didactic sessions, and spending at least one afternoon participating in nursing home rounds as part of our geriatrics curriculum.

How to Apply 

If you attend UT-Health San Antonio Long School of Medicine or the University of the Incarnate Word School of Osteopathic Medicine, please contact the Family Medicine clerkship coordinator at your school to request this clerkship rotation.

Expectations 
  • We want you to have a good learning experience. You will be treated as a member of our health care team and be given responsibility commensurate to your experiences and desires. Although we have developed a rotation that will be educational for you, please let us know if you have any special interests so that we can try to address those specific requests.
  • Regardless of your ultimate career plans, we believe we have something to add to your medical education. If you are interested in primary care, we hope you gain an appreciation of the value a well-trained family physician brings to a community and to the practice of medicine. If you are focused on another specialty choice, we believe that all physicians are made better by an understanding of the foundation of primary care. If you are undecided, we would be happy to talk with you about making the most important decision of your professional life.
  • We want you to develop an understanding of family medicine and, hopefully, a glimmer of the joy and sense of reward and accomplishment found in long-term patient relationships.
  • We want you to see our residency program, and we want to help you with your ultimate career choices regarding specialty selection and residency training. We hope that you will see the commitment and skill of our faculty and the quality of our resident. We want you to see how we work together and how we continually work to improve our program.
  • We expect you to act professionally throughout the time that you are here. That professionalism includes appropriate behavior, dress, attendance, punctuality, and a respect for patient confidentiality and privacy. Our chief residents or one of our faculty members will discuss these issues with you when you arrive.
  • We want you to have fun. We love what we do and hope you will share in that passion. We work hard, but we laugh a lot. Although we are always delighted to receive positive comments about your experiences, we also believe that we improve by receiving constructive criticism; feel free to provide us with your feedback.
Family Health Center 

You will be working with faculty or senior residents in order to maximize clinic flow and exposure to patients. While working in the outpatient clinics, you will have the opportunity to provide direct patient care while learning about a wide array of clinical conditions in pediatric, adult, and geriatric patients. You will be in clinic Monday through Friday (8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.) with daily lunch didactics as well as Thursday afternoons devoted to didactic teaching.