Advanced Practice in Biomedical Testing and Imaging

Catalog description

In this course students explore and develop an understanding how to use and interpret the wide range and ever-growing number of biomedical tests and imaging practices in the orthopedic and sports medicine area of care. The skills to make decisions as to which test, under what conditions, to demonstrate the most efficacious outcomes will be studied. This process, in turn will allow students to develop the best rational for including biomedical testing and imaging into the process of diagnosis, intervention a nd prognosis. This diagnostic skill set, in its advanced form, is critical to ultimately determining the best interventions which in tun drive the optimal prognosis for our patients and athletes. These tests and measures include, but are not limited to, MRI, CT, Radiographs, and scintigraphy in musculoskeletal disorders. A thorough comprehension of AACR criteria f or each condition is assumed.