Clerkship
The UNMC Family Medicine Residency program and Family Medicine Residency Clinic at the Ehrling Bergquist Clinic offers several MS3 and MS4 rotations. They are challenging and rewarding, both in the ambulatory setting and the inpatient and labor & delivery setting.
Clerkship Opportunities
This rotation is primarily for USUHS medical students. You will spend the majority of your time in our family medicine clinic seeing patients with staff and senior residents. You will also have the opportunity to assist in various procedures in our clinic.
Additionally, you will have the opportunity to see patients with senior residents while they attend nursing home rounds at several different nursing homes in the greater Omaha area.
You will also spend some time at Nebraska Medicine - Bellevue with the inpatient medicine team, as well as the labor and delivery team.
As a 4th year student, you will be given the responsibility of seeing your own clinic 1-2 half days while you rotate with us. This clinic will be precepted by a staff provider and will take place in the Family Medicine Residency clinic. You will also spend some time at Nebraska Medicine - Bellevue.
Sub-Internship
You will spend the majority of your time at Nebraska Medicine - Bellevue as a member of the inpatient team. You will also spend time with the labor and delivery team assisting in antenatal care, labor and delivery care, and newborn care. You will also have a 1/2 day per week when you see your own patients.
You will see patients in the Sports Medicine Clinic and assist in performing joint injections and other common Sports Medicine procedures, assist with patient education, as well as assist in managing fractures. In addition, you may have the occasion to work with the Physical Therapy and Orthopedic departments while rotating with us.
You will also have the opportunity to assist in various procedures in our clinic, such as vasectomies, skin procedures, colposcopies, exercise treadmill testing, endoscopies, and osteopathic manipulation.
FAQs
On your first day we ask that you show up at the front desk of the FMR clinic at 0730. Let the clerk know that you are a medical student and ask for the residency coordinator. You will need a military ID card to get on the clinic grounds, otherwise, you need to be escorted. Please coordinate with us if you do not have an ID card.
*Note that the Ehrling Bergquist Clinic is not on base. It is located on the corner of 25th and Capehart Road in Bellevue.
While in clinic, UOD is ABUs for the Air Force (ACUs or utility uniform for other services).
While at Nebraska Medicine - Bellevue, UOD is business casual with comfortable shoes that cover your toes and your white coat while on inpatient. On L&D, UOD is hospital scrubs and your white coat, and again comfortable shoes that cover your toes. You will obtain scrubs at the hospital when needed. You are not allowed to wear scrubs while in clinic, and you are not allowed to enter or exit the clinic in anything but your military uniform of the day.