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Evidence-based Medicine I Course Guide (Archived): Week 13 12/4/18

This guide provides links to information resources that can be utilized in course in-class activities and assignments.

REQUIRED READING:

 Read the following article:

 


 

Supplementary Resource

This book is on course reserve in the library.

EBM I Week 13 Session Guide

EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE I

WEEK 13

December 4, 2018

 

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

  • Beginning of material on EBM II Exam
  • The first hour of today’s session is a MANDATORY session. The second hour is the retake exam.
  • The December 11th class is a virtual session. You are required to have viewed and learned the material prior to the EBM II exam in January.

UPCOMING ASSESSMENTS:

  • The retake exam is today at 2 pm.

 

TOPIC 1: Evidence Based Medicine, the Physical Exam, and Art

FACULTY: Paul J. Lecat, M.D. and Heather McEwen, MLIS, MS

 

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

AT THE END OF THE LECTURE, STUDENTS WILL BE ABLE TO:

  • Discuss how observation skills can help healthcare provide better patient care during the physical exam and during pharmacy interactions with patients.
  • Use their observation skills to ask more effective patient questions.
  • Understand how clinicians have utilized  art and the Sherlock Holmes literature to illustrate observations skills needed by healthcare providers.
  • Generate differential possibilities from an observation, then use further questions and exam maneuvers, to determine which possibility is most likely.

Session Resource:

Supplemental Resources:

Test Your Knowledge: Practice questions will be placed in the class session folder in AIMS. These questions are for your own self-study and will not count toward your grade.