Integumentary and Musculoskeletal Systems

Catalog description

The Integumentary and Musculoskeletal Systems course is structured around weekly clinical presentations that reflect commonly encountered situations affecting the integumentary and musculoskeletal systems. The course is focused on providing students with a detailed understanding of normal structure, function and pathologic dysfunction of the two systems. Each week starts with a clinical presentation that is accompanied by clinical algorithms, clinical reasoning guides, and detailed objectives lists. Faculty then led t h e students through the clinical algorithms emphasizing critical decision points and setting the framework for the integration of the basic and clinical sciences. Over the course of the week, faculty present fundamental principles from the traditional basic sciences (anatomy, histology, embryology, biochemistry, immunology, microbiology, nutrition, pathology, pharmacology, and physiology) to provide students with the knowledge and skills required to arrive at a correct…