OCOM 7003 - The Osteopathic Approach to Patient Care 3 - Chronic Illness

The Osteopathic Approach to Patient Care 3 Course emphasizes chronic illness, and provides overarching generalist topics via sequential patient presentations. Biomedical, social, osteopathic, clinical, and health systems science curricular threads are streamlined and optimized for course sequence of topics. Classroom experiences emphasize application and integration of foundational concepts learned through faculty and learner-directed study, and laboratory-based experiences complement and reinforce course topics. Clinical and community experiences emphasize patient-centeredness and team-based care, and relate back to course topics and patient presentations via critical reflection via longitudinal academic and professional coaching/mentoring.

Credit Hours: 12

Course Outcomes

Students will be able to articulate how various chronic diseases alter physiological functioning at the molecular, cellular, biochemical, microanatomical and organ system levels across the life stages.
Students will be able to develop a differential diagnosis and treatment plan which integrates the psychosocial factors and pathophysiology of chronic disease.
Students will be able to utilize the triadic osteopathic approach in the clinical evaluation of patients with chronic illness, including completing a history/ physical, comprehensive assessment/plan, and correct documentation.
Students will be able to develop a management plan for a chronically ill patient that incorporates the patient’s health preferences, religious and/or cultural beliefs, and social determinants of health.
Students will be able to collaborate and coordinate an interprofessional approach to patient care within the health care team.
Students will be able to effectively communicate to patients a treatment plan which reflects shared decision making and promotes care coordination.
Students will be able to apply current medical standards to the use of technology in the communication, documentation, and care of patients with chronic illness.
Students will be able to anticipate and address clinical, ethical, and legal issues in the screening, diagnosis, and treatment of patients with chronic illness.
Students will be able to describe how psychosocial, socioeconomic, and demographic factors; including race, social determinants of health and health disparities, affect the care of patients with chronic illness.
Students will be able to critically evaluate clinical and translational research and apply evidence-based research to the care of patients with chronic illness.
Students will be able to interpret and apply public health research, epidemiological data, and health policy knowledge to the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of chronic disease.
Students will be able to explain how occupational and environmental factors, including epidemiology and toxicology, contribute to the risk, exposure, and development of chronic diseases.
Students will be able to formulate, through reflective practice and professionalism; timely, sensitive, and instructive feedback to others about their team performance and receive feedback related to their own performance.
Students will be able to reflect and apply the process for personal and professional development that fosters osteopathic professional identity formation, an osteopathic approach to patient care, and personal wellness.