Correlative Medicine I

Catalog description

Develops students’ critical thinking skills related to diagnosing and managing commonly-encountered medical complaints. Students will utilize information gathered during history and physical exam to determine differential diagnoses, select medically appropriate and cost-effective diagnostic tests, and formulate management plans for the most likely diagnoses for a given medical complaint. Throughout this course, students will learn to discern important information from extraneous details in history taking, identify pertinent physical exam findings, prioritize diagnostic tests, and use evidence-based decision making skills.