ICP-II is a multidiscipline course which presents a clinical view of disease and begins the development of physical diagnosis skills. The course employs lectures, problem-based study groups, supervised patient workups, specialty rotations with Neurology, Urology, Obstetrics, Gynecology, Otolaryngology, Ophthalmology, and with the Blood Bank. It also provides opportunity for clinical electives with Family Care and with Homeless Health Care. Additionally, students are encouraged to sign up for rotations through a Pediatric orientation and Saturday hospital rounds where they may begin to observe how rounds are conducted and how patients are presented by the team to the attending physician. Students are also given an overview of Universal Precautions procedures just before starting the junior year.
Pathology provides an overview of human diseases.
It does this through lectures, laboratory exercises, multidiscipline panels, and student involvement in Journal Clubs and Clinical Pathological Conferences. The laboratories offered give the student an opportunity to review clinical data and discuss the pathophysiology of given diseases. Appropriate tissues will be studied under the microscope in order to learn the changes in tissues caused by specific disease entities. Appropriate use of the clinical pathology laboratory to workup and establish a diagnosis in an ill patient will also be stressed. Microbiology discusses and reviews the various organisms which produce human disease and reviews the immune system and its various protective responses.