Revised 7-29-99
THE COMPLETE DOCTOR
Syllabus - 255
Fall 1999 – Class 2002
Course Director: Margaret Wilson, D.O., Chairperson
Associate Professor General Practice/Family Medicine Department
Staff Support: Dena Higbee, Staff Educator (Students’ contact)
Medical Education, x2408, or
Kim Blackman, Project Coordinator (Dr. Wilson’s contact)
General Practice, x2182, or
Class Dates: Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday afternoons
(See attached calendar.)
Lectures: Education Building, McCreight Classroom
Required Text: A Guide to Physical Exam and History Taking
By Barbara Bates; J.B. Lippincott Company,
Philadelphia, PA
Synopsis of Psychiatry, by Kaplan/Saddocks
Additional References: Guide to Clinical Preventive Services,
Report of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force
Grading: You must earn 70% of the total points.
The final grade will be determined as follows:
Final Exam 50 % Nov. 17, 10:30 a.m.
School Physicals Pass/Fail
Assignments 50 points
COURSE GOALS AND OBJECTIVES
DEATH AND DYING:
(By the end of this course the student will be able to)
1. To provide students an opportunity for introspection…how do they feel about issues,
concepts and emotions associated with the process of dying?
2. To explore grief from a theoretical and a practical basis.
3. To examine the concept, use and varieties of advanced directives.
4. To provide examples and strategies students can use to cope with personal and patient loss.
5. To define the role of hospice in health care today.
DRUG AND ALCOHOL ADDICTION AND ABUSE:
(By the end of this course the student will be able to:)
1. Understand the basic physiologic process of addiction.
2. Know how to interview and assess a patient to determine if substance abuse or addiction is present.
3. Be able to cite the many medical co-morbidities that present in a primary care practice that may suggest substance abuse or addiction.
4. Describe a treatment model that can be used in primary care.
5. Recognize their professional and ethical responsibility regarding substance abuse.
Assignment: Kaplan & Saddock, Synopsis of Psychiatry, Chapter 12. Substance-Related Disorders
MANAGED CARE AND HEALTH CARE POLICY:
(By the end of this course the student will be able to:)
1. Understand basic issues involving Managed Care and Health Care Policy.