Principles of Primary Care and Osteopathic Medicine I

Catalog description

The Principles of Primary Care course extends through all eight blocks. Communication skills in patient interviewing, patient partnering, and medical history are taught in lecture and clinical laboratory environment. The student is introduced to the use of his or her basic senses including smell, touch, auscultation, visual inspection, and hearing to assess a patient’s basic presentation, vital signs, and to perform a postural analysis. This course is taught in a lecture and clinical laboratory setting. Written or computer examinations, OMM practical examinations, and Standardized Patient examinations are used as methods in evaluating the student. The student is introduced to the role of other healthcare professionals. The student is also introduced to the principles of prevention that will follow in each subsequent block. •