Nov 10, 2024
Ohio University Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine 2024-2025
Ohio University Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine 2024-2025
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OCOM 8035 - Obstetrics and Gynecology
Obstetrics and Gynecology is a four-week blended course that integrates biomedical, social, osteopathic, clinical, and health systems science into the clinical learning environment experience. Educational activities rely on the application and integration of foundational concepts in obstetrics and gynecology through faculty- and learner-directed study. Additionally, course topics are reinforced through rotation-specific clinical experiences.
In this course, students review the basic principles and practices of obstetrics and gynecology. Students also explore the management of medical concerns specific to women, including the normal physiologic changes throughout their lifespan, as well as the pathophysiology of obstetric and gynecologic disease.
Credit Hours:8
Course Outcomes
- Students will be able to perform a comprehensive history and physical of the reproductive age woman.
- Students will be able to describe a normal pregnancy from conception to postpartum care.
- Students will be able to diagnose and develop a treatment plan for common complications of pregnancy.
- Students will be able to describe the normal physiology of menstruation and menopause.
- Students will be able to formulate a differential diagnosis and treatment plan for abnormal uterine bleeding.
- Student will be able to discuss the diagnosis and treatment of common gynecologic malignancies.
- Students will be able to apply osteopathic principles and practices to care of the female patient.
- Students will be able to describe opportunities, attractions, and challenges of obstetrics and gynecology as a profession.
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