2 semester hours, first year, semester 2. 6301. Physical Diagnosis Physical Diagnosis teaches students to integrate skills learned in semesters 1 and 2 in actual patient encounters durg clinical laboratory sessions. Students continue to develop their skills in interaction with patients while obtaining and recording information concerning patient health problems and family histories, continuing to perfect basic interviewing techniques. During this course, students begin the study of common abnormal findings. Lectures on physical diagnosis are coupled with laboratories.
Emphasis is on history and physical examination and recording.
In the last weeks of this course, students are expected to demonstrate compentence in completing a full history and physical examination on both pediatric, adult and geriatric simulated patients. 7 semester hours, second year, semesters 3 and 4. 6302. Clinical Exposure A field-based study of clinical medicine places the classroom experience of the student physician in the context of medical practice and introduces the student physician to a portion of the health care community. The program focuses on the role of the family physician in the health care community. Special emphasis is placed on the physician's role as a contributor of health care services.