Longitudinal Problem Based Family Medicine Seminar

Catalog description

The family medicine physician must have diagnostic skills that are able to span the breadth for primary car. To that extent, the physician must know how to request appropriate information and tests to make a diagnosis. In this course, students will be assigned to a group of 5 students and each group will have a faculty mentor. The faculty mentor will be provided with all details of an actual patient case and the students will participate in discussion, only provided with information when asked in an appropriate setting. The students will become familiar with challenges faced in an outpatient setting. Over the course of each case study the students will be challenged with receiving results for tests or outcomes in a simulated time scenario as well.