Knowledge Integration for Clinical Medicine

Catalog description

(Only for students enrolled at the Manhattan, Middletown, or Long Island/NUMC campuses)This 5-week course will provide additional academic support. The course will use various instructional techniques to enhance the student’s medical knowledge, ability to synthesize medical information to demonstrate critical- thinking, communication and problem-solving skills. Participants will review the pathophysiology, epidemiology, etiology, clinical manifestations, diagnosis, treatment, and prognosis of medical and surgical conditions. Emphasis is placed on diagnostic problem-solving, differential diagnosis, developing a management plan, providing patient education and incorporating evidence-based care. This course will address the student’s deficiency of knowledge and/or skills. Students review how to obtain information, perform focused history and physical examinations and generate appropriate differential diagnoses.