OCOM 7004 - The Osteopathic Approach to Patient Care 4 - Return to Wellness

The Osteopathic Approach to Patient Care 4 Course integrates topics from the previous three courses 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 knowledge necessary for the maintenance and restoration of human health and patient care that addresses common and complex clinical presentations across the life stages.
Students will be able to utilize the triadic osteopathic principles relationship between structural, functional, and mental activities to optimize a return to health and wellness.
Students will be able to evaluate a patient with complex or comorbid condition.
Students will be able to develop a differential diagnosis for a patient with complex or comorbid conditions.
Students will be able to develop a comprehensive-patient centered treatment plan for a patient with complex or comorbid conditions that recognizes the entire clinical context, including mind-body and psychosocial interrelationships.
Students will be able to evaluate the impact of environmental factors, cultural background, socioeconomic background, patient history and health policy on the delivery of health care and achievement of wellness in individuals and populations.
Students will be able to evaluate methodological and ethical principles of clinical and translational research in the care of a complex patient.
Students will be able to apply standardized health practice guidelines and evidence-based medical principles and practices to patient care.
Students will be able to effectively communicate a complex patient centered treatment plan to a patient and/or their caregiver.
Students will be able to appropriately document patient care that satisfies current medical standards.
Students will be able to justify the use of an interprofessional approach to implement a patient-centered, evidence-based management plan that emphasizes a return to health and wellness.
Students will be able to identify and acknowledge how and when mistakes in communication can affect health outcomes when working on an interprofessional team.
Students will be able to justify, through reflective practice and professionalism, timely, sensitive, and instructive feedback to others about their team performance and in receiving feedback related to own performance.
Students will be able to evaluate their process for personal and professional development that fosters osteopathic professional identity formation, an osteopathic approach to patient care, and personal wellness, including the development of resilience.
Students will be able to describe how different health care delivery systems influence the utilization of resources and access to care.
Students will be able to integrate responsibilities in medical ethics and social accountability with a commitment to professional virtues.
Students will be able to identify opportunities to advocate on behalf of patients and communities for health promotion and disease prevention.
Students will be able to apply health system sciences methods intended to improve population health.