Doctoring 3
(UCLA & UCR/UCLA students only)
(MD005)
This required course takes place over a half day, on alternate weeks, throughout the academic year.
Small groups of eight students with faculty will manage a panel of patients with different representative ambulatory problems--as new patients, and for follow-up visits. Students will consider patients with common medical problems, emphasizing the use of evidence-based medicine, including psychosocial, cultural, economic, and insurance issues. Students also will be given the opportunity to share and discuss experiences from their current rotations. The major themes of this component that will run throughout the clinical cases are:
- clinical decision making
- medical ethics
- doctor-patient communication
- health economics
- practice management
- clinical pharmacology
- professional & personal development
- the culture of medicine
Criteria for a letter of distinction include the following:
- Outstanding performance in most aspects of course activities including:
- Group participation
- Patient interviewing
- Independent investigation (review and critique of reading material)
Students who receive letters of distinction display a heightened level of sensitivity to patient issues and to their peers. Students at this level of performance are typically outspoken, willing to share their views openly at the same time display an exemplary level of tolerance for the views of others. They are self critical as well as generous and skillful in their willingness to offer feedback to others.
| Course Chair: | Margaret Stuber, M.D. (310) 825-5213 mstuber@mednet.ucla.edu |
| Coordinator: | Sherrie Martinez (310) 825-0278 sbmartinez@mednet.ucla.edu |