Principles of Primary Care and Osteopathic Medicine II

Catalog description

The Principles of Primary Care course includes the following clinical care principles: the normal history and physical examination of the muscular and skeletal systems, the abnormalities that occur in the history and physical with various disorders or disease processes, the approach to differential diagnosis from the most common complaints related to the systems, and the most common injuries or abnormalities seen in primary care. In this block, the student is introduced to the osteopathic structural examination and the structural considerations of the most basic osteopathic manipulative medicine (OMM) techniques used to correct structural muscular and skeletal abnormalities involving the spine and extremities. The course also covers the most important history to determine the differential diagnosis for clinical presentations, the complete examination for the systems and the integration of how abnormalities affect the overall health of the patient. Additional laboratory time is dedicated to acquiring and advancing osteopathic manipulative medicine skills. •