Principles of Primary Care and Osteopathic Medicine III

Catalog description

The Principles of Primary Care course includes the medical history and physical exam related to neurological and optical systems and psychological/psychiatric examination. The course includes the approach to the neurological examination, differential diagnosis from the most common complaints, preventive medicine measures to support the health of the system, the nutrition important to the health of the system, communication, the most common injuries to the system, the most common abnormalities or disease, and the most basic Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine techniques used to correct structural and functional abnormalities in these systems. The course also includes ethical considerations in neurological injury and death and dying curriculum. The course covers the most important history to determine the differential for clinical presentations of symptoms, the complete examination for the systems, and the integration of how abnormalities in the system may affect other systems or the whole patient. Additional laboratory time is dedicated to acquiring and advancing osteopathic manipulative medicine skills especially to the spine and sacrum. The course includes prevention and nutritional strategies for the health of the system. Clinical skills for physical diagnosis, clinical procedural skills most common to the neurological system (lumbar puncture, principles of EMG and EEG) are taught in the clinical laboratory format. Challenges with difficult histories from neurological injury and psychiatric illness are discussed. Special examinations related to psychiatric history and mental status examinations are presented. •