Reproductive System

Catalog description

The Reproductive Systems course is designed to teach medical students the medical and scientific knowledge pertinent to the male and female human reproductive systems in both health and disease. The course consists of twenty clinical presentations dispersed over the course of six weeks. Each clinical presentation is accompanied by a clinical algorithm. The clinical algorithm consists of a branching diagram designed to aid the student in reaching a diagnosis via deductive reasoning. The branches of the clinical algorithm represent reductive diagnostic groups that narrow the range of diagnoses under consideration. Each clinical algorithm is accompanied by a clinical reasoning guide. The “Clinical Presentations” for this course were designed to capture the most common and medically significant chief complaints pertinent to the reproductive system in health and disease. Following a given clinical presentation and the pertinent basic science content, students will collaborate in clinical…