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October: Orientation/Session 1
Objectives
- Respectfully communicate with patients, staff, and other team members
- Meet members of the office, introduce self and understand roles of different providers
- Review office policy and procedures with office manager
- Shadow the MA or designee, understand their role
- Follow a patient through entire office visit
- Independently perform MA functions (Intake, Vital Signs)
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November-December: Bone and Muscle Disorders
Objectives
- Respectfully communicate with patients, staff, and other team members
- Practice interviewing patients and obtain CC and HPI
- Practice documenting a patient’s HPI (does not need to be in the EHR)
- Practice hip, shoulder, knee, or back/spine PE
- Direct observation of obtaining chief complaint and history of present illness, WITH feedback
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January - March: Cardiopulmonary Disorders
Objectives
- Respectfully communicate with patients, staff, and other team members.
- Practice taking a past medical history
- Practice back/spine PE
- Practice cardiac PE
- Practice pulmonary PE
- Practice cardiopulmonary focused ROS as appropriate for chief complaint
- Practice oral presentation of histories and physical exams
- Practice STAGE framework for oral presentations with preceptor (Style, Timing, Audience, Goals, Elicit)
- Practice supporting patients in changing health behaviors
- Direct observation of obtaining past medical history including medication and allergies, WITH feedback from preceptor
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April: Endocrine and Reproductive Disorders
Objectives
- Respectfully communicate with patients, staff, and other team members.
- Practice taking a family and social history
- Identify how the office conducts referrals to obtain imaging or consultation with subspecialists
- Work with office to preapprove an insurance claim for procedure or identify the charges for one visit and one procedure
- Work with office staff that take patient calls to schedule timely appointments to provide continuity of care.
- Use the USPTF website introduced in Longitudinal Group to develop a health prevention or health maintenance plan for a patient
- Direct observation of obtaining family history and social history, WITH feedback