MBIOL 7955 - Clinical Skills Maintenance

The Clinical Skills Maintenance Course will be provided to MD-PhD students allowing them to maintain their clinical focus on advanced history-taking skills, advanced physical examination skills to help elicit abnormal findings, professional communication skills, further development of lab and imaging selection and interpretation, and more advanced skills in diagnostic reasoning. This course will be taught through independent study and these activities will provide students with real patient interactions in which they will apply knowledge learned in other components of the medical school curriculum. These experiences will also introduce students to the clinical environment and help them understand how to integrate into the clinical team. Students will maintain contact with their CMC Faculty Advisor (assigned in medical school) This course will assist in preparing MD-PhD students for a return to MS3. They will also participate in “The Transition to Clerkship” course offered in MS3 which is an introduction to the Phase III Core Clinical Clerkship curriculum. It is designed to provide students with the resources and skills necessary to thrive in the clinical curriculum and to succeed as medical professionals and lifelong learners.