Course overview
Welcome to the WSU College of Medicine Art and Practice of Medicine (APM)’s webpage. The APM course cultivates the skills needed of practicing physicians. This page contains basic information about the course, links to course references, and required physical examination videos. The overall goal of APM course directors and faculty is to guide students on their learning journey while sharing experiences and insight into the role of a physician.
Course objectives
Students completing the Art and Practice of Medicine course will be able to:
- Collect subjective and objective patient data using a clinically structured approach and document findings accurately in written and verbal formats
- Develop and defend a prioritized differential diagnosis for a chief concern outlining the initial diagnostic and therapeutic steps
- Apply effective communication strategies during simulated and early clinical encounters across diverse health care settings
- Employ evidence-based guidelines relevant to common clinical scenarios using a patient-centered approach
- Analyze core principles of medical professionalism and ethics, including integrity, accountability, respect and equity, as they relate to academic and simulated clinical contexts as determined by faculty, peer, and self-evaluation
Curriculum outline
Year One: Content in the first year focuses on foundational development of history, physical examination and clinical reasoning used in new patient and screening clinical encounters. The chart below lists the new content for each term as the curriculum builds on skills taught in previous terms. Student performance in each term will be dependent on mastery of skills from previous term(s).
Year Two: Content in the second year advances the use of the first-year skills by shifting focus to hypothesis-driven inquiry and diagnostic and therapeutic management of clinical encounters.
Assessment outline
Student performance in APM is evaluated through the following modalities:
- Weekly Assignment Completion
- Professional Attributes
- Per Term Faculty Global Assessment
- Workplace-Based Assessments (WBAs)
- Summative Examinations
- Scoring rubrics, tools and narrative feedback contributing to student evaluation can be viewed by on the Power BI dashboard. Students will receive weekly formative feedback from faculty and peers that will not be included in the dashboard and is for student reflection and use only.
Questions about how to use the dashboard?
MedTech has a tutorial: Power BI
Resources
Year 2
