OCOM 7923 - Primary Care Associateship in Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine and Family Medicine

• Apply the concepts of diagnosis and management to the patient encounter.
• Assist in the teaching activities of the Departments of Family Medicine and OMM.
• Clarify and set specific learning objectives with the clinical preceptor(s).
• Complete the NBOME Item Writing 101 course, then develop basic test items to measure expected cognitive competencies in a specific content area.
• Construct a research proposal and, with consultation, apply appropriate statistical techniques to research data.
• Construct goals and meaningful, measurable objectives for specific content in the curriculum.
• Demonstrate efficient use of time for treatment and documentation.
• Demonstrate expanded knowledge of different techniques used to treat the range of patient problems encountered.
• Demonstrate improved history-taking, physical examination, palpatory and diagnostic skills.
• Demonstrate knowledge of anatomy, physiology and body mechanics.
• Demonstrate understanding and application of fundamental principles in Osteopathy.
• Demonstrate understanding and application of somato-somatic, viscero-somatic, and somato-visceral interactions along with common patterns of somatic dysfunction.
• Describe evaluation mechanisms in use at Heritage College, including the basic principles of subjective and objective evaluation, and the basic rationale for their usage.
• Describe the basic steps in preparation/presentation/coordination, along with advantages and disadvantages, of the most common didactic and clinical teaching methods utilized at Heritage College.
• Discuss a broader knowledge base of Osteopathic Principles and Practice through teaching, treating and participating in other learning environments.
• Experiment with and learn new treatment techniques, including OMM skills, as well as improve upon techniques already learned.
• Explain the proper usage of educational media and materials.
• Explore practice management issues through readings and discussions with your preceptors.
• Explore the concept of continuity of care both longitudinally through a primary care practice as well as across numerous locales of care (ER, hospital, outpatient, nursing home, hospice).
• Formulate clear and testable research hypotheses.
• Identify a meaningful and realistic problem to utilize as the basis of a scholarly project.
• If a non-research project is chosen, the above steps should be modified to be congruent with the scholarly activity chosen by the Associate.
• Interpret and critically evaluate research findings and incorporate them into a literature review.
• Interpret and evaluate, with consultation, research data.
• Perform procedures as appropriate to level of experience as determined by preceptor.
• Use appropriate principles of research design and methodology for a research project, with consultation.
• Use appropriate research strategies and tools to construct a thorough review of the literature relevant to the research project.
• Write a clear, organized and coherent paper which presents, in publishable form, the salient details of a research project, including a critical review of the literature.