PAS-5051 Clinical Problem Solving 2
Using a case-based learning approach, students will synthesize the medical knowledge acquired throughout the curriculum and develop the critical thinking skills integral to clinical problem solving. Each week students will be assigned required readings, which will reinforce and support their learning of a variety of topics encountered throughout the curriculum. Large group sessions will utilize a chief complaint to drive a variety of systems-based differential diagnoses. Through facilitated class discussion, students will choose a ‘clinical path’ to explore, describing the diagnostic and therapeutic options appropriate in the management of the disease processes.
The Culture in Medical Ethics workshop will utilize small group and larger class discussions to analyze practice-based scenarios complicated by conflict, ethical, and professional concerns while considering the cultural implications that must also be recognized and valued when making medical decisions.
Students will be involved in weekly “pre-clinical” experiences. The experiences will have a primary care focus, but will also expose the students to primary and specialty practice and other ancillary services of medicine. Students will initially observe and may, according to their skills and with preceptor supervision, sequentially increase their independence, applying the knowledge, skills, and professional attributes they are learning in the classroom. This serves as the introduction to practice-based medicine and a precursor to the clinical year of the Program.
Offered
Didactic Phase, Summer Semester