Principles of Primary Care and Osteopathic Medicine V

Catalog description

The Principles of Primary Care course includes the medical history and physical exam related to the Gastrointestinal and Renal systems. The course includes the approach to differential diagnosis from the most common complaints, the most common medical conditions and injuries or abnormalities of the system, preventive medicine, and the most basic Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine techniques used to correct structural and functional abnormalities that relate to these systems and provide a mode of treatment for certain disorders. 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. Additional laboratory time is dedicated to acquiring and advancing osteopathic manipulative medicine skills. •