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Spring 2027
Correctional System Healthcare Elective in Family Medicine
An in-depth Family Medicine elective focused on healthcare for incarcerated individuals, emphasizing comprehensive primary care, patient commitment, and use of community resources within the correctional system.
offering recorded2–8 credits
Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 Mark Beamsley
Summary
What you’ll be able to do
Perform a hypothesis driven history and complete a targeted exam.
Develop and present a weighted differential diagnosis for medical conditions.
Using clinical evidence, adapt and justify a working diagnosis.
Present a treatment and diagnostic plan including laboratory and imaging modalities.
Correctly interpret imaging and laboratory findings and communicate results to patients and team members.
Develop and implement effective patient management plans as related to the correctional system.
Complete written documentation in a comprehensive, concise, accurate and timely manner.
Review, interpret and present current literature to support patient care.
Develop clinically relevant questions to advance learning.
Communicate effectively with patients, family, physicians and non-physician team members.
Communicate and collaborate with consultants and/or primary team and other providers to coordinate care.
Engage patients in shared decision making regarding tests, orders and procedures.
Avoid medical jargon when communicating with patients and families.
Recognize limitations and seek assistance as appropriate as it relates to the correctional system.
Develop a plan to follow-up and follow-through with patients as it relates to the correctional system.
Understand the process of informed consent in regards to the incarcerated.
Recognize conditions that determine patient level of care and interpret physiologic changes that require changing the level of care per the guidelines set by the correctional system.
Perform minor procedures with supervision per the guidelines set by the correctional system.
Demonstrate the ability to manage time and understand, access and utilize the resources and systems necessary to provide optimal patient care per the guidelines set by the correctional system.
Source: UW Guide
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Prerequisites
Course mapMED SC-M 810, 811, 812, and 813
FAMMED 924
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Professors
Spring 2027Historical instructors & teaching patterns
MARK BEAMSLEY is recorded teaching in Fall 2024, Spring 2025, Fall 2025, Spring 2026. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.
Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.
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Spring 2027Schedule loads here as you scroll.
| Section | Mode | Enrolled / capacity | Waitlist |
|---|---|---|---|
| FLD 005 | Classroom Instruction | 0 / 1 | 0 |
| FLD 006 | Classroom Instruction | 0 / 1 | 0 |
| FLD 003 | Classroom Instruction | 0 / 1 | 0 |
| FLD 007 | Classroom Instruction | 0 / 1 | 0 |
| FLD 008 | Classroom Instruction | 0 / 1 | 0 |
| FLD 009 | Classroom Instruction | 0 / 1 | 0 |
| FLD 010 | Classroom Instruction | 0 / 1 | 0 |
| FLD 011 | Classroom Instruction | 0 / 1 | 0 |
| FLD 012 | Classroom Instruction | 0 / 1 | 0 |
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Student experience
the class
In-depth exposure to the principles of Family Medicine as it relates to the Correctional System Healthcare of the incarcerated, emphasizing continuing and comprehensive care. Under direct supervision by faculty, share ongoing responsibility for the patient in both health maintenance and illness. Emphasis will be placed on commitment to the patient and understanding the problems in the total context of the patient's life. Development of awareness of student physician and the patient's attitudes and learn to use interactions as a therapeutic tool. In addition to the pathology of disease, learn the appropriate use of patient education, preventative medicine and the role of family and community resources in providing quality primary care.
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Topics
- Family Medicine principles applied to correctional system healthcare.
- Comprehensive and continuing care for health maintenance and illness under faculty supervision.
- Patient education, preventative medicine, and utilization of family and community resources.
- Awareness of physician-patient attitudes and using interactions therapeutically.
Skills
- Develop and implement patient management plans for the correctional system.
- Understand informed consent processes specific to incarcerated patients.
- Manage time and utilize correctional system resources for optimal patient care.
- Interpret physiologic changes to adjust patient level of care per correctional guidelines.
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Correctional System Healthcare Elective in Family Medicine
Recorded 2026-10-14Raw records
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