Welcome to the first step in your General Internal Medicine Statewide Preceptorship Program (GIMSPP) experience. This program is designed to enable you to garner real life experience working along side a knowledgeable and skillful Internist in a community setting, away from the medical center. Ideally, this experience will afford you the chance to explore what being a practicing internist involves, and to apply a "hands on" approach to learning to enhance your classroom instruction.

During this preceptorship you will work on developing your skills at history taking, physical examination, early diagnosis, and treatment plan formulation, among others. By working with your assigned physician, you will gain insight into the rewards of a practice in Internal Medicine and observe how a clinician functions as a member of his or her medical and non-medical community.

We here at GIMSPP have carefully designed an online orientation to help you understand and prepare you for a successful experience. We hope that you find it helpful and welcome any feedback.

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