Clinical Cases

3 credits · Professional

This course aids students in the development of critical thinking and evidence based decision-making skills in clinical situations. Through inquiry learning students will be given an opportunity to demonstrate integration, application, synthesis, and evaluation of didactic knowledge gained from a variety of disciplines and their clinical experience. They will be expected to research learning issues that arise while working through the cases and present their findings within a study group-learning situation. Students are expected to conduct literature searches to obtain current information on their assigned learning issues. When compiling their research students will use a variety of credible sources including current texts, scientific journals and periodicals, evidence- based Internet sites and resource persons. Initial cases will introduce the students to the process of inquiry learning and the final cases will be of a more complex nature, where the technique of “progressive disclosure” will be utilized.