MEDICINE 9570      Family Medicine Preceptorship
5 credit hours/1 month. Provides work experience with a rural Missouri physician. Helps students understand the responsibilities and importance of family physicians in the provision of health care. Provides continuing emphasis on the need for and importance of family practice.
Credits: 5 hours
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MEDICINE 9571      Psychiatry Rotation
5 credit hours/1 month. Gives each medical student a clinical assignment that involves responsibility for patient care under supervision on the adult inpatient service and experience in the clinic. Includes seminars in psychopathology, psychiatric syndromes, mechanisms of defense, psychopharmacology, drug and alcohol abuse and specific psychosocial assessment.
Credits: 5 hours
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MEDICINE 9578      Medicine and Art
5 credit hours toward the M.D. degree. Lecture, discussion.
Credits: 5 hours
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MEDICINE 9583      Continuing Care Clinic
5 credit hours /half-day per week except during vacation or out-of-town electives. 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 9585      Prescribing For Special Populations
2 credit hours/independent study during Year 5. Consists of a self-paced, independent learning, computer-based instruction. Teaches principles of prescribing for special populations. Students learn to recognize special patients and to assess risks and benefits and individualize drug therapy in special patient situations. The course addresses concepts of pharmacology in five commonly-encountered special populations: pediatrics, elderly, patients with liver or kidney disease, and pregnant or breast-feeding patients.
Credits: 2 hours
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MEDICINE 9587      Extended Clinic III
Credits: 5 hours
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MEDICINE 9594      Medicine and Body Image
5 credit hours toward the M.D. degree. Lecture, discussion, writing about ethical issues related to death.
Credits: 5 hours
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MEDICINE 9601      Internal Medicine/Docent Instruction Yr 6
Students spend this two-month rotation on the medical wards at Truman Medical Center, each working as an 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 6.
Credits: 5 hours
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MEDICINE 9678      Emergency Medicine
5 credit hours/1 month. Based at Truman Medical Center Hospital Hill or Saint Luke's Hospital of Kansas City, the major affiliated adult hospitals for the School of Medicine. Emphasizes principles, concepts and skills necessary for the initial evaluation and care of medical and surgical emergencies. Teaches management of simple lacerations, burns, contusions, sprains, and infections, and recognition of life threatening emergencies and initiation of emergency care in response.
Credits: 5 hours
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MEDICINE 9683      Continuing Care Clinic
5 credit hours/half-day per week except during vacation or out-of-town electives. 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 9685      Rational And Safe Drug Prescribing
2 credit hours/independent study during fall Semester of Year 6. Consists of self-paced, independent learning, computer-based instruction. Teaches principles of clinical pharmacology that will assist the student in responsibly prescribing medications. Students develop skills in making informed clinical decisions through studying topics such as literature evaluation, medication errors, adverse drug reactions, drug allergies, drug interactions, overdose management, alternative therapies, and therapeutic drug monitoring.
Credits: 2 hours
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MEDICINE 9687      Extended Clinic IV
Credits: 5 hours
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MEDICINE 9701      Clinical Research
Credits: hours
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MEDICINE 9703      Academic Research
Credits: hours
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MEDICINE 9714      Academic General Year I
Credits: hours
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MEDICINE 9714A2      Academic General Year I
Credits: 1 hours
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MEDICINE 9715      Independent Readings Month
Credits: hours
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MEDICINE 9716      Independent Study Month
Credits: hours
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MEDICINE 9719      Health Policy
Credits: hours
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MEDICINE 9731      Academic Clinical Epidemiology
Credits: 5 hours
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