Art of Clinical Practice I & II

Catalog description

The course provides students the knowledge and skills to perform a proper history and physical examination, as well as effective SOAP note documentation and Oral Case Presentations. The student will be assessed on the knowledge related to these goals and the practical skills related to: (1) Interviewing and history taking, (2) Performing the physical examination, (3) Demonstrating professional/ethical behavior, (4) Making clinical judgments, and (5) Clinical communication (e.g. SOAP note writing and Oral Presentation). Clinical diagnostic reasoning and medical decision-making will be emphasized in team-based learning sessions moderated by a clinical faculty member, as well as standardized patient (SP) encounters, simulation scenarios (SIM), and community-based early clinical encounters (ECE), inter- professional education (IPE), and interprofessional collaborative practice (ICP). Further, the purpose of this course is to empower the students with the basic understanding of how sociocultural patterns of behaviors, personalities, developmental disabilities, ethics, and communication will affect patient care and clinical decision making. Curriculum goals regarding lifelong learning, professionalism, self-care, ethics, and social and community contexts of care will also be addressed. Other topics include biological correlates of behavior; learning and behavioral change; lifespan development; communication and interaction; group processes; family and community sociocultural patterns of