MEDICINE 9110      Fundamentals Of Medical Practice I
5 credit hours each, 3 hours per week onsite, 2 hours lecture/small group/ other activities. Introduces students to professional values, attitudes and skills required to practice medicine competently. Develops student competence in basic communication, relationship-building and patient centered interviewing skills. Provides self-awareness and personal growth strategies that facilitate the acquisition of professional behavior affecting honesty and integrity, compassion and altruism, as well as the management of stress. Explores non-biological factors influencing health and the appreciation of different value systems and life styles. Promotes ethical considerations relating to professional behavior and student conduct as a forerunner to professional behavior. Emphasizes the team approach in solving medical problems through direct small group activities as part of weekly onsite docent experiences. Integrates patient interviews and examinations with sciences fundamental to clinical medicine, including anatomy, chemistry, psychology and sociology. Introduces the student to the normal processes of aging and incorporates onsite interactions with senior mentors. Involves students in a core curriculum that emphasizes issues related to adolescence.
Credits: 5 hours
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MEDICINE 9110A      Fundamntl Med Prac I
Offered: Every semester.
Credits: 3 hours
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MEDICINE 9115      Medical Terminology
1 credit hour/twice weekly each semester. Methodical introduction to the language of medicine and its usage in modern clinical documentation. Introduces word elements in a logical, graduated sequence correlated with laboratory practice. Encourages skills in etymological analysis based on the word elements presented to facilitate interpretation of composite medical terms.
Credits: 1 hours
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MEDICINE 9119      Learning Basic Medical Sciences
1 credit hour/1 hour per week. Provides students with an understanding of their own learning processes and those study strategies that promote maximum learning efficiency. Active participation in course increases achievement in both science and non-science courses, smoothes transition to college-level work, and further develops reasoning and thinking skills that apply to medical school
Credits: 1 hours
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MEDICINE 9120      Fundamentals Of Medical Practice II
5 credit hours each, 3 hours per week onsite, 2 hours lecture/small group/ other activities. Introduces students to professional values, attitudes and skills required to practice medicine competently. Develops student competence in basic communication, relationship-building and patient centered interviewing skills. Provides self-awareness and personal growth strategies that facilitate the acquisition of professional behavior affecting honesty and integrity, compassion and altruism, as well as the management of stress. Explores non-biological factors influencing health and the appreciation of different value systems and life styles. Promotes ethical considerations relating to professional behavior and student conduct as a forerunner to professional behavior. Emphasizes the team approach in solving medical problems through direct small group activities as part of weekly onsite docent experiences. Integrates patient interviews and examinations with sciences fundamental to clinical medicine, including anatomy, chemistry, psychology and sociology. Introduces the student to the normal processes of aging and incorporates onsite interactions with senior mentors. Involves students in a core curriculum that emphasizes issues related to aging.
Credits: 5 hours
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MEDICINE 9120A      Fundamntl Med Prac II
Offered: Every semester.
Credits: 3 hours
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MEDICINE 9210      Fundamentals Of Medical Practice III
5 credit hours, 3 hours per week onsite, 2 hours lecture. Reinforces important concepts in diversity and professionalism. Continues the team approach in solving medical problems through direct small group activities as part of weekly onsite docent experience.
Credits: 5 hours
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MEDICINE 9210A      Fundamntl Med Prac III
Offered: Every semester.
Credits: 3 hours
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MEDICINE 9220      Fundamentals Of Medical Practice IV
5 credit hours, 3 hours per week onsite, 2 hours lecture. Reinforces important concepts in diversity and professionalism. Continues the team approach in solving medical problems through direct small group activities as part of weekly onsite docent experiences. Integrates patient interviews and examinations with sciences fundamental to clinical medicine, including biochemistry, anatomy, physiology, biochemistry and social sciences. Exposes students to a series of interviews with seasoned professionals who address issues of professionalism and career development.
Credits: 5 hours
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MEDICINE 9220A      Fund of Medical Practice IV ALT
Credits: 3 hours
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MEDICINE 9221      Hospital Team Experience
1 credit hour/2-week assignment in hospital. Teaches students to make good observations, interact appropriately with patients, family, and hospital staff, assist with non-physician duties, and perform technical skills appropriate to assigned departments. Facilitates understanding of allied health care personnel roles in patient care, communication among health care professionals and its influence on the delivery of health care and patient outcomes, and the hospital process and structure of authority within the hospital.
Credits: 1 hours
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MEDICINE 9310      History Of Medicine
In this course students will learn the ways disease has altered history and that conceptions of disease undergo constant change. Topics covered include diseases and their relationships to other medical sciences, as well as the historical and scientific developments which led to our presen understanding of diseases and medicine. One hour lecture per week. Summer of Year 2.
Credits: 1 hours
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MEDICINE 9312      General/Clinical Pathology
Year 3 spring semester. 8 credit hours (January-February). Course consists of lectures, laboratories with case studies, special projects including integrated questions, clinical patient presentations, and examinations. Content areas emphasized include cytogenetics, infectious diseases and neoplasia.
Credits: 8 hours
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MEDICINE 9313      Anatomic/Systemic Pathology
Year 3 Spring semester. 12 credit hours (March-May). Course consists of lectures, laboratories with case studies, special projects including integrated questions, clinical patient presentations, autopsy review with paper, and examinations. Content areas emphasized include cardiovascular, lymphatic, hematologic, gastrointestinal, renal, hepatic, and genitourinary systems.
Credits: 12 hours
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MEDICINE 9380      Clinical Skills
5 credit hours/fallsemester. Challenges students to achieve competencies in patient history taking, physical examination, selected diagnostic studies and procedures, and other abilities. Statements of competencies in above areas specify the attitudes, knowledge and skills students will be expected to demonstrate
Credits: 5 hours
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MEDICINE 9383      Continuing Care Clinic
5 credit hours /half-day per week except during vacation or out-of-town electives (beginning in Fall Semester, Year 3).Provides ambulatory and continuous care experience in general medicine clinics .The docent teams are assigned to a clinic in which students see and follow a panel of patients on a continuous basis for up to four years, where necessary, under the supervision of docents. Provides continuity of care from inpatient hospitalization to outpatient care, allowing longitudinal experience for the student and personalized care for the patients. Allows students to observe the natural progression of disease and experience the rewards and challenges of an ongoing doctor-patient relationship.
Credits: 0-5 hours
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MEDICINE 9385      Introduction To Pharmacology
2 credit hours/independent study during Fall Semester of Year 3.Consists of self-paced, independent learning, computer-based instruction. Introductory principles of pharmacology are covered that provide students with basic knowledge and skills necessary for upcoming didactic and clinical curriculum .Students become familiar with drug information resources, pharmaceutical calculations, and prescription writing skills, and learn basic mechanisms of drug action, preventive therapeutics and pharmacokinetic principles .
Credits: 2 hours
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MEDICINE 9386      An Interdisciplinary Approach to Patient Care: CUES to Healing
3 credit hours. CUES (Communication, Understanding, Education, and Self-care) is designed to enhance physician/patient communication skills CUES increases the cultural competence of students, for example in providing care to older people and people from ethnically diverse populations
Credits: 3 hours
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MEDICINE 9390      Clinical Correlations
5 credit hours. Case-based discussions provided by clinicians that serve to reinforce basic science concepts provided during BMS 9296, 9297, 9298 and 9390.
Credits: 5 hours
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MEDICINE 9401      Internal Medicine/Docent Instruction Yr 4
Students spend this two-month rotation on the medical wards at Truman Medical Center, each working as a integral member of a docent team that includes the docent, residents and attending health care staff. Year 3 and 5, and Year 4 and 6 students are paired together in a junior-senior partnership. Rounds, conference and consultations. Year 4.
Credits: 5 hours
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