Doctoring 1 is a year-long course in the first year where students learn foundational doctoring skills. The course is structured in case-based small groups that allow for clinical interviews with a faculty member or a standardized patient so that students can learn and practice communication skills and data gathering, doctor-patient relationship building, physical examinations, clinical reasoning, case presentation and documentation skills. Further, these cases will promote integration of foundational and social science topics students are learning in their other courses and provide an opportunity for self-directed learning. At the end of each session, students will identify learning needs related to the case, and each will select a topic to research. The following week, students will teach their classmates about the topic they researched to further the group's understanding of the case. Students will have clinical placements in the hospital during the fall, with a longitudinal preceptor in the spring. During their clinical placements, students will apply and practice the content they have learned in their small groups through interviewing patients and performing physical exams. Students will learn team-building skills and will reflect on topics surrounding professionalism, ethics, and professional identify formation. This course is a merger of the previously offered Integrated Problems 1 and Introduction to Clinical Medicine 1 courses and is designed to deliberately integrate clinical reasoning and clinical skills.

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