Clinical Systems 1

Catalog description

(FIRST SEMESTER) The Clinical Systems Course is composed of organ system-based modules divided between the Fall and Spring semesters. The content is presented via videotaped lectures, Power Point presentations, reading assignments, and weekly, three-hour, in class interactive sessions. The main goal of the Clinical Systems course is to introduce and provide a foundation for clinical medicine to the second-year medical student and covers the clinical aspects of disease relative to the pediatric, adolescent, adult, and geriatric populations. The course will divide clinical medicine into major organ systems, presented in modules. This course will have a vertical thread with the first-year courses and a horizontal thread with the other second-year module classes (Immunology and Microbiology, Pathology, and Pharmacology), so that students will have a comprehensive presentation of each of the organ systems discussed. The course will incorporate anatomy, physiology, pathology, microbiology, immunology, biochemistry, genetics, radiology/ diagnostic imaging, laboratory medicine, treatment options, and disease management as well as discussions relating to the standard of care and screening modalities for the diseases presented. Contents of the Clinical Systems course are integrated into the Early Clinical Experience course: Introduction to Doctoring course, Medical Simulation course, and will incorporate key components of the Physical Diagnosis course.