Be Reasonable
Learning the art of thinking like a doctor.
The Chief Concern course is designed to develop your clinical reasoning skills and help you understand how doctors approach a clinical case.
In this course, you will practice applying a framework of clinical reasoning to patient cases and learn the process of clinical problem solving. You will apply the information gathering skills gained in the Doctoring Course, utilize medical knowledge built in the system-based blocks, learn to ask clinical questions, and look to the literature to build additional knowledge as is taught in the Evidenced-Based Medicine curriculum.
The Chief Concern course allows students in their first year of medical school to start practicing the clinical reasoning skills we use every day in clinical medicine. With knowledge readily available and the ever-expanding depth of medical information, learning how to reason through information, both known and unknown, may be the most important skill a clinician can have."
In small groups of 15-20, students are presented with clinical cases in a stepwise approach. Each group is led by a clinical faculty to help guide them through the case, starting with the development of a broad differential diagnosis. As groups gain more knowledge of the case, they learn to ask clinical questions, look to the literature to find answers to these questions and ultimately refine their possible diagnoses, identifying what is most likely.
These low-stakes, relaxing courses will place you into the role of being a physician in the real world. You may not feel ready yet, but the faculty members have worked tirelessly to create an authentic experience from which you will really feel like a problem-solving physician and detective."
