Early Clinical Experience- Intro to Doctoring I

Catalog description

(FIRST SEMESTER) This is a two-semester course that is taught using a variety of formats including large group interactive sessions, small group case-based learning sessions and Objective Structured Clinical Examinations (OSCE) encounters. In this course, students will work with faculty in both large and small group sessions designed to allow students to practice the following skills: osteopathic patient history taking, physical exam techniques, and the development of a differential diagnosis using clinical reasoning, utilization of evidence-based medicine, employing health literacy, demonstrating competency in the professional verbal case presentation and patient note documentation. The cases presented in this course correlate with the concepts taught in the Clinical Systems course and follow the 2nd year module schedule. The clinical content will place emphasis on primary care medicine as it relates to prevention of disease through appropriate health care maintenance and the management and treatment of acute and chronic disease. In this course, students will participate in a series of OSCEs as part of their summative and formative evaluation. Students are primarily graded across three domains: history and physical examination skills, humanistic skills, and documentation skills.