The ACFP, in collaboration with the AMA Section of General Practice and Rural Medicine, sponsor a program in which incoming medical students have the opportunity to shadow family physicians practicing in urban and rural settings (for a 3-4 day period, during the week before the formal start of classes.  The purpose of this program is to give these beginning medical students an opportunity to experience what it's like to work in a front-line practice in the community setting.  The placements have been held in a broad spectrum of practice types and settings including the inner city, women's health, emergency, large and small practice offices, and hospitals.

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