Primary Care I

Graduate / Professional

This is the first of four didactic primary care courses designed to enable students to develop the necessary knowledge base and problem-solving skills for primary care practice as nurse practitioners and midwives. Course content emphasizes health promotion, disease prevention, assessment, differential diagnoses, and evidence-based management of acute and chronic conditions for diverse populations of patients from adolescence to senescence, highlighting management of patients with comorbid chronic conditions. This is a required course for all family, adult-gerontology primary care, and midwifery/women’s health students in their first specialty year. Two hours per week for fifteen weeks (2 credits). 2 Course cr T 12pm-1:50pm