Clinical Decision Making

Catalog description

This course will use a problem-based learning format and focus on a student-centered approach in which students apply their knowledge and learn about a subject by working in small groups to solve an open ended problem. This problem based learning approach will develop students' abilities to extend and improve their knowledge to keep up in the ever-expanding field of medicine and to learn how to provide care for new illnesses they encounter. The emphasis will be in developing independent critical reasoning skills and applying them towards the evaluation of pertinent patient data in formulating a list of potential diagnoses. The course will educate and train students to become self-directed learners with the desire to know and learn, the ability to formulate their needs as learners, and the ability to select and use the best available resources to satisfy these needs.