Clinical and Technical Skills I

Catalog description

Clinical Skills I builds upon the previous semester's Introduction to Patient Assessment course to further advance interpersonal and communication skills resulting in the effective exchange of information and collaboration with patients, their families, and other health professions, development of clinical reasoning and problem-solving abilities, patient evaluation, work-up, diagnosis, intervention, and management. The course will be modularized to accompany the topics covered in the Topics in Medicine & Surgery II courses occurring in the same semester.