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MED 623 - Advanced Clinical Skills - Fall

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The community-based preceptorships and accompanying clinical experiences are designed to strengthen the history taking, physical examination and clinical reasoning skills of the students. Limited to M.D. students.

Grading Basis: Medical
Offered: Every Fall

Student Learning Outcomes
Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
1. obtain a clinical history and perform the appropriate mental and physical examination for a focused problem in the ambulatory setting.
2. demonstrate an ability to engage and communicate with a patient and build a student physician-patient relationship for the purpose of information gathering in the ambulatory setting.
3. demonstrate respect, empathy, responsiveness and concern regardless of the patient’s problems or personal characteristics.
4. maintain personal awareness/self-reflection/well-being including identifying his/her own responses to patients.
5. document the focused history, physical examination and chief complaint utilizing the SOAP formation when applicable.
6. demonstrate an ability to develop a diagnostic and/or treatment plan for common problems in uncomplicated patients seen in the ambulatory setting when applicable.
7. demonstrate, develop and utilize self-directed learning skills relative to the care of patients seen in the preceptor’s office.
8. develop a routine method with which to consider and document their patient’s experience with illness.


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