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EMS 430 - Problem-Based Learning I


Description:
This course introduces case-based presentation of pathology, symptomatology, presentation, and treatment of clinical scenarios through life-span development, group discussion, and research.

Prerequisites:
Co- requisite: EMS 455 and admission to the paramedical major or program.

Credits: (4)

Learner Outcomes:
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:

  • Identify the principles and processes associated with problem-based learning and demonstrate cooperative and participatory contributions toward the process
  • Participate fully in the investigation of medical symptom complexes, syndromes, pathologies, medical phenomenon, and the collaboration with fellow students in the progressive and integrative consensus of differential diagnoses
  • Demonstrate understanding of case development and disease progression in simulated cases and correlate previous knowledge with newly gained information from case-specific research
  • Demonstrate understanding of the critical elements of a full patient profile as a standard of patient assessment, including history and physical examination details, differential diagnoses, presumptive diagnosis, and therapeutic options
  • Demonstrate ability to utilize resources and referential information in the investigation of medical entities, pathologies, symptom complexes, and disease presentations and integrate that information into a patient profile
  • Demonstrate ability and willingness to cooperate, participate, collaborate, and lead group discussions, to facilitate collective decisions, and arrive at a presumptive diagnosis consensus
Learner Outcomes Approval Date:
1/28/2010



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