EMS 430 - Problem-Based Learning I

• 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