Goals & Objectives
The overall goal during this clerkship is to develop the knowledge, skills, and professional attributes involved in the practice of internal medicine.
Knowledge:
1. Disease: pathophysiology, etiology, diagnosis, therapeutics, management
2. Health: prevention, lifestyle, health screening
3. Research: data gathering, hypothesis testing, assessment
Skills:
1. Thorough medical history taking
2. Focused medical history taking
3. Complete physical exam
4. Focused physical exam
5. Making a problem list
6. Thoughtful differential diagnosis
7. Appropriate diagnostic strategy
8. Therapeutic strategy
9. Interpretation of laboratory values
10. Performing basic medical procedures
11. Medical documentation: admission & progress notes, discharge summary
12. Writing orders: admission, daily, & discharge planning
13. Presentation: complete H&P, focused case presentation, topic presentation
Professional Attributes:
1. Ownership
2. Responsibility & Accountability
3. Respect
4. Honesty
5. Ethical patient care
6. Performing as a Health-care team member
