Sep 20, 2024
Ohio University Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine 2019-2020

OCOM 6004 - The Osteopathic Approach to Patient Care 2 - Acute Illness


The Osteopathic Approach to Patient Care 2 Course emphasizes acute diseases, and provides overarching generalist topics via sequential patient presentations. Biomedical, social, osteopathic, clinical, and health systems science curricular threads are streamlined and optimized for course sequence of topics. Classroom experiences emphasize application and integration of foundational concepts learned through faculty- and learner-directed study, and laboratory-based experiences complement and reinforce course topics. Clinical and community experiences emphasize patient-centeredness and team-based care, and relate back to course topics and patient presentations via critical reflection via longitudinal academic and professional coaching/mentoring.

Course Outcomes
  • Articulate basic biomedical, clinical, and cognitive (epidemiological and social behavioral) science knowledge of breadth and depth necessary for the maintenance of human health and patient care that addresses common acute clinical presentations.
  • Approach the acutely ill patient with recognition of the entire clinical context, including mind-body and psycho-social interrelationships.
  • Use standard formats for documentation and sharing patient encounters accurately and concisely.
  • Develop a differential diagnosis in the context of acute clinical patient presentations and findings.
  • Diagnosis acute clinical conditions and form a patient-centered, interprofessional, evidenced-based management plan.
  • Perform or recommend OMT as part of a treatment plan.
  • Establish and maintain the physician-patient relationship.
  • Explain the roles and responsibilities of other care providers and how the team works together to provide care.
  • Demonstrate preventive health principles by modeling a healthy lifestyle.
  • Understand the public health implications of cultural competence in health care.
  • Identify roles for existing providers who provide clinical preventive services.
  • Apply quantitative epidemiological principles to inform clinical practice with regard to screening and prevention (include limitations of study designs).
  • Apply criteria used for screening tests, such as sensitivity, specificity, predictive values, bias, safety, cost, and prevalence.
  • Describe evidence-based medical principles and practices.
  • Interpret features and meanings of quantitative and qualitative data and nominal, dichotomous, ordinal, continuous, ratio, and proportion variables.
  • Evaluate the relevance and validity of clinical research


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