Nov 23, 2024
Ohio University Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine Catalog 2015-2016
Ohio University Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine Catalog 2015-2016
[Archived Catalog]
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OCOM 6081 - Fundamentals in Clinical Osteopathic Medicine 1
This sixteen-week course is the first of four courses that help students develop the clinical skills necessary to master the American Osteopathic Association core competencies. Course components focus on history and physical, osteopathic manipulative medicine skills, and clinical and community experiences. Integral to all of these areas are psychosocial skills. Students receive guidance in specific psychosocial and psychomotor skills, and the importance of an evidence-based approach to clinical application in the practice of medicine is reinforced. The format of the course incorporates clinical lab sessions, utilizing peers or simulated patients for practice in obtaining history and performing physical examinations. On occasion, learning activities will utilize real patients. Clinical cases in the concurrent biomedical sciences course are structured to foster learning objectives that enhance history and physical exam skills. An ongoing thread in this course is the problem-oriented medical record and medical progress notes (SOAP notes), which tools students need in order to develop and maintain excellent documentation of clinical encounters. The osteopathic manipulative medicine lab component for this course is taught to primary care continuum curriculum students in conjunction with students in the clinical presentation continuum curriculum. Students are assigned to one or more clinical faculty for eight or more four-hour experiences per term to be given an opportunity to practice their developing clinical skills. They will also be assigned to community agency preceptors for two or more four-hour experiences per term in order to develop an understanding of the various roles of non-physician personnel and health care services provided outside the hospital/physician’s office. Objectives and activities for each community agency experience are available on the Clinical and Community Experience Web site.
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