Date
2019
Abstract
Female patients seeing primary care in rural settings often do not seek out specialized care from a practicing OB/GYN, favoring instead to utilize their family practitioner to respond to their complaints. As such, it would be effective to work to educate these patients at their well-women examinations on routine screenings, immunizations, and health maintenance methods they should expect based on their presenting age. A handout simplifying and synthesizing the main screening and general health guidelines for annual well-women examinations may be helpful for female patients using primary care practitioners as their source for obstetric and gynecologic care.
Clinical Site
Dr. Theodore Blum, Private Practice, Bethel, CT
Keywords
obstetrics, gynecology, well-woman examination, Connecticut
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Disciplines
Female Urogenital Diseases and Pregnancy Complications | Medical Education | Primary Care
Recommended Citation
Jalai, Cyrus Maxim, "Educating Patients on Screening Guidelines and Expectations for Well-Woman Examinations" (2019). Family Medicine Clerkship Student Projects. 431.
https://scholarworks.uvm.edu/fmclerk/431
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