Catalogue Number: BMS 6834
Course Director: Rebecca R. Pauly, MD
Welcome to Essentials of Patient Care IV. This is the final part of a four part course series designed to introduce medical students to clinical medicine. We aim to provide you the tools and experience to develop as competent and compassionate physicians. The course will meet throughout the spring semester and combine didactic lectures, small group sessions, standardized patient experiences in the Harrell Assessment Center and actual patient encounters on the hospital wards.
EPC IV has four areas of concentration:
- Focus on advance communication skills such as the Triadic Interview consisting of the patient, physician, and another individual.
- Development of differential diagnoses by skillful history and PE data collection and processing of information (clinical decision-making) in an inpatient and outpatient setting.
- Development and perfection of focused history and physical examination skills on patients who present with common outpatient scenarios.
- Focus on patient education for health promotion and disease prevention.
We are excited to be involved in your educational process as you develop technical and interpersonal skills which will be critical to the practice of medicine.
