Total Contact Hours: 94.5 hours
Co-Course Directors: S. Bruce Binder, M.D., Ph.D., Associate Professor of Family Medicine and Pharmacology
Course Description: This year-long course meets one day each week and has a combination of lecture, small group, office preceptor, and standardized patient learning activities. Students learn the fundamentals of building a relationship with a patient, how to gather relevant information, and conduct a physical examination. In small group settings, students and faculty discuss the special challenges of caring for patients from diverse backgrounds, how to recognize one's own biases, and how to work effectively and ethically in difficult situations. At several points during the year, each student must demonstrate what he/she has learned by conducting a comprehensive interview and sections of the physical examination on standardized patients. In addition, each student will work with a primary care physician (pediatrics, family medicine, internal medicine) for a half-day each week for a portion of the year, learning about the complexities of providing comprehensive health care.
Course Learning Goals, Assessment, Practice, Teaching and Learning Activities, and their Integration with the Institutional Educational Objectives:
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Institutional Objectives |
Learning Goals |
Assessment Activities (graded) |
Practice/ Feedback Activities (non-graded) |
Teaching and Learning Activities |
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Build an accurate and thorough patient history |
Interview OSCE; Written exam |
Volunteer interview; Interview small groups |
Lecture/demonstration; Textbook readings |
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Perform specific physical examination skills (>120) as specified on competency sheets |
Physical exam OSCE; Written exam |
Physical exam small groups; Preceptors |
Lecture/demonstration; Physical exam small groups; Preceptors; Textbook readings |
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Identify important differences in the approach to and examination of the neonate, the toddler, and the adolescent |
Written Pediatric Quiz |
Dayton Public Schools pediatrics experience |
Lecture/demonstration; Dayton public Schools pediatrics experience; Textbook readings |
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Establish and build a professional relationship with a patient |
Interview OSCE; physical exam OSCE |
Volunteer interviews; Preceptors; Dayton Public Schools pediatrics experience |
Lecture/demonstration; Interview small group; Physical exam skills small group; Textbook readings |
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Communicate effectively with patients while building an accurate and thorough patient history |
Interview OSCE |
Interview small groups; Volunteer interview; Interview OSCE |
Lecture/demonstration; interview small groups; Textbook readings |
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Receive oral and written feedback from faculty, patients, and simulated patients in a respectful manner, and use that feedback to improve skills in succeeding encounters. |
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Volunteer interviews; Interview OSCE; Preceptors; Interviewing small groups; Physical exam small groups |
“Helpful Feedback” session in Year 1 orientation |
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Perform an accurate self assessment of performance, strengths, weaknesses, and areas needing improvement, and reflect on those in written form. |
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Reflection papers; Volunteer interviews |
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Demonstrate professional behavior during interactions with faculty, staff, course director – in a variety of settings. |
Preceptor evaluations; Evaluated informally by course director through ongoing discussions with personnel mentioned and third year clerkship directors. |
Volunteer interviews; Interviewing small groups; Physical exam small groups; Dayton Public Schools pediatrics experience; Preceptors |
Lecture/demonstration; orientation materials |