PMMD 8523 Clinical Skills Year 2

The Clinical Skills component of the curriculum is a longitudinal module that runs throughout the first two years of medical school and supports the progressive development of basic and advanced history taking skills, basics and advanced physical exam skills, and application of diagnostic rests. Professionalism, ethical considerations of the clinical environment and the importance of respect for cultural norms and values, communication, and interprofessional teamwork and are a strong focus of instruction and assessment in this module.

Clinical Skills Year Two longitudinal module is a supervised practical experience designed to provide podiatric medical students the opportunity to learn basic clinical skills such as history taking, and physical examination clinical reasoning interpretation of clinical tests perform clinical procedures professionalism effective communication and selected intervention needed to provide high quality patient care. Year two places great emphasis on the development of clinical skills that will prepare the podiatric student for entry level residency training. These podiatric medical/surgical skills and behaviors will be introduced their second year and nurtured through their clerkship years fully preparing them for graduate medical education and beyond.  Students will develop their interpersonal skills that ensure appropriate age, gender, and culturally sensitive health care at the advanced beginner level.

Instructional activities are taught and facilitated by interprofessional teams, standardized patient encounters, differential diagnosis sessions and community-based physician monitoring. Most of the Clinical Skills module experience take place at multiple sites (simulation hospital and other clinical venues). Assessments include discrete point formative and summative activities, written examinations, simulations, hypothesis driven physical examination performance, and observed structured clinical examination (OSCE) performance.

Credit Hours:

5.00

Schedule Type:

Preclerkship

Grading Basis:

Honors / High Pass / Pass /Fail (H/HP/P/F)

Administrative Unit:

School of Podiatry

Offered:

As Scheduled