Learning Objectives
By the end of the Ob/Gyn clinical component the student will be able to...
- Obtain a focused patient history.
- Perform a focused new patient physical examination.
- Apply recommended screening and prevention strategies to women throughout the lifespan.
- Develop the provider role as advocate for quality and equity in patient care and optimal patient care systems.
- Analyze the impact of genetics, medical conditions, and environmental factors on maternal health and fetal development.
- Recognize indications for common diagnostic and screening tests such as ultrasound, UPT, CBC with differential, UA, STD panel, B-hcg, cervical or urine cultures.
- Use clinical reasoning to synthesize data from a surgical or obstetrical patient into a prioritized differential diagnosis, working diagnosis, and plan.
- Develop assessments and management plans based on patients’ pathophysiology.
- Apply knowledge of intrapartum and postpartum care in simulations and clinical encounters with mothers and newborns.
- Differentiate between normal and abnormal bleeding using knowledge of menstrual cycle physiology, puberty and menopause.
- Outline the etiology and evaluation of infertility.
- Construct differential diagnoses of patients with common benign gynecological conditions.
- Formulate a differential diagnosis of the acute abdomen and chronic pelvic pain.
- Classify common breast conditions and outline the evaluation of (or evaluate) breast complaints.
- Describe gynecological malignancies, including risk factors, signs and symptoms and initial evaluation.
- Role-play and relate knowledge of core OB/GYN related health issues including contraception, sterilization and abortion in shared decision-making with patients in clinical scenarios.
- Perform gynecological procedures using integrated knowledge of perioperative care.
- Develop a preliminary assessment of patients with sexual concerns.
- Assess patients for risks of domestic violence and child abuse.
- Demonstrate effective communication with patients and families.
- Demonstrate professional behaviors with all members of the health care team including physicians and non-physician health professionals.
- Exercise evidence-based practices.
- Summarize a patient’s condition in an oral presentation using the SOAP format.
- Construct a note based on a clinical encounter