The Clinical Science Segment provides a comprehensive correlative review of basic medical sciences to prepare students for licensing examinations and clinical rotations. 9-week course, Advanced Introduction to Clincal Medicine. This course is designed as an integrative process, incorporating already acquired knowledge and skills, and augmenting them to create a bridge to further learning. It is intended to prepare students for a successful transition to the clinical clerkships and to reinforce important concepts.
Emphasis is placed on improving techniques of the physical examination and diagnostic skills.
Critical thinking will be refined to strengthen the ability to formulate rational clinical hypotheses and differential diagnoses. By the end of the course, students will be able to demonstrate their improved critical thinking skills, their fund of knowledge on mechanism of disease processes, and their clinical acumen, by making cogent written and oral presentations, by performance on written examinations, and by classroom discussion. Step I, students are ready to enter clinical rotations in specific fields. There are 48 weeks of required core rotations and 33 weeks of electives. They are included in the curriculum of every medical school.