Overview
Description
Adult Medicine presents the evaluation, diagnosis, management, and prevention of medical conditions in the adult population in an organ systems-based format. This course engages students in critical thinking and medical decision-making necessary for the practice of medicine, with attention to healthcare disparities, social determinants of health, and healthcare systems.
Units
Lecture7
Catalog Details
Offering
Offered: Every Spring
Terms
spring
Attributes
Standard
Learning Outcomes
- create a plan for evidence-based evaluation, diagnosis, and management of acute and chronic medical conditions in the adult and older-adult population from initial presentation through ongoing follow-up.
- analyze the impact of health and social disparities on disease and develop a strategy for treatment and prevention that is tailored to the unique needs of the patient and the resources in the community.
- explain the etiology, risk factors, pathophysiology, differential diagnosis, and prevention for medical conditions in the adult and older adult population.
- apply evidence-based health maintenance guidelines to patient care.
- select and interpret appropriate diagnostic tests, explaining their reliability, indications, interpretation, and application to patient care.
- identify the signs and symptoms associated with specific disease-states in the adult and older-adult population.
- integrate knowledge and skills learned previously to, and concurrently with, this course including public health concepts, history taking and motivational interviewing, physical examination and patient assessment, pharmacotherapy, interpretation of diagnostics, patient education, and identification of life-threatening conditions.
- develop an evidence-based acute and/or long-term patient care plan to include patient education and counseling, adjunct therapies/treatments, pharmacotherapeutics and rehabilitation (as applicable) for medical conditions encountered in adult and older-adult patients.
- demonstrate professionalism in interactions with faculty and peers.