Translational Research in Medicine (TRIM)

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Translational Research in Medicine ( BMS 802 ) is a mentorship course that provides post-comprehensive MD/PhD graduate students with the opportunity to work one-on-one with a clinician scientist mentor that will allow students to build upon and hone their clinical skills (history taking, physical exams). The course will also allow students to explore different sub-specialties and develop their clinical network. The students will also become proficient in writing SOAP notes and in learning how to integrate their basic science knowledge with their clinical exposures. These opportunities will make it possible for students to integrate their clinical experiences with their PhD thesis projects. By the end of this course students will be expected to be able to: 1. Perform a detailed history using agenda-setting, open-ended questions, and Chronology, Onset, Description, Intensity, Exacerbating factors, Remitting factors, Symptoms (CODIERS) which are an important piece of the medical school's Patient Centered Interviewing Technique. 2. Perform a thorough physical exam 3. Apply basic science knowledge to clinical problem solving 4. Write a comprehensive SOAP note (A framework for writing progress reports about a patient) 5. Write a case report based on a patient seen in clinic (optional but highly suggested) This course is specifically designed for post-comprehensive MD/PhD students, to build upon and hone their clinical skills during the non-clinical years of training and to begin to develop a translational research project that will be further explored in the M3 medical course Advanced Translational Medicine.