Course Goals

The major goals of the Clinical Foundations of Medical Practice-2 course are to facilitate the students’ evolving understanding of clinical medicine, and to foster the development of attitudes necessary for the practice of sound, humanistic medicine. This involves consideration of the following issues by each individual student:

1.                  Identify the problems which physicians are asked to address, in terms of major symptoms, signs, laboratory and imaging abnormalities during physical diagnosis

2.                  Develop an approach regarding the characteristics of diseases (including a consideration of the psychosocial venue in which illness develops), pathogenesis, clinical features, complications including the impact of disease, and therapy, in all of its dimensions.

3.                  Develop the ability to integrate the sciences with clinical education and to give special consideration to the other components of the course: Death, Dying, Grieving and Loss; Health Care Ethics; Medical Interviewing techniques; Nutrition; and Sexual Health while assessing the patient.

4.                  Achieve increasingly greater competence in the domain of self-directed learning through team based learning, small group sessions and specialty rotations

Course Objectives

Upon completion of this course, the student should be able to:

1.                  accurately describe the clinical presentation of a patient as it relates to the patient’s disease process

2.                  develop an assessment of the patient’s problem (s)

3.                  develop a patient differential diagnosis for each major problem

4.                  critically appraise the scientific literature related to patient problems

5.                  ascertain, as a team, principle concepts of clinical vignettes

6.                  apply the principles and techniques gleaned from the biomedical-psychosocial model in all patient encounters. 

7.                  conduct literature searches

8.                  critically appraise the scientific literature related to patient problems.

Length of Course:

Course begins the second week of August and ends the second week of May.

Course Director:

M. Stephen Baxter, M.D.

Emergency Medicine

Assistant Professor

513-558-8107

stephen.baxter@uc.edu