Introduction to Clinical Medicine and Medical Engineering

2-12-10 units · Graduate

Introduction to the intricacies of clinical decision-making through broad exposure to how clinicians think and work in teams. Instruction provided in patient interviewing and physical examination; organizing and communicating clinical information in written and oral forms; and integrating history, physical, and laboratory data with pathophysiologic principles. Attention to the economic, ethical, and sociological issues involved in patient care. Consists of one-month immersive clinical experiences at MGH or Mt. Auburn Hospital, leveraging extensive educational resources across inpatient clinical floors, ambulatory clinics, procedural/surgical suites, diagnostic testing areas, simulation learning lab, and didactic settings, followed by a focused experience at MIT in which students develop a proposal to solve an unmet need identified during their clinical experiences. Restricted to HST MEMP students.