Patient Care Experience I

Catalog description

Patient Care in the Department of Comprehensive Care involves a number of essential elements, that focus on the delivery of safe, effective, compassionate care to patients, as well as developing efficiency in the delivery of patient care and over time, accomplishing an increasing amount of clinical experiences and developing greater clinical productivity each day, week and month. These are the foundations of our DMD and Comprehensive Care clinical education program, to enable D3 and D4 student doctors the ability to develop clinical judgment and skills, focusing on the overall quality of patient care and patient experiences, achieving a level of clinical competency and improving efficiency and productivity of their daily patient care, so that CWRU SODM graduates are practice-ready at time of graduation. Those elements are clearly described in the new Comprehensive Care grading system rubrics that consist of: Ethics; Compassionate Care; Comprehensive Care; Health Promotion, Prevention and Maintenance; Procedure/Treatment; Dental Practice Management; and Critical Thinking. The focus and purpose of the Patient Care Experience I, II and III courses is on your clinical experiences and a quantitative assessment of your overall clinical experiences and clinical productivity each semester.