Practice management: a third-year clerkship experience.

Background And Objectives: This report describes a curricular experience that introduces the basics of practice management to third-year family medicine students. The curriculum includes evidence-based medicine, managed care concepts and terminology, financial management terms and concepts, laws and legal issues, and insurance and coding.

Methods: In 1999-2000, a three-session practice management curriculum was implemented in five family medicine third-year clerkship rotations at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Wilmington site.