An Objectively Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) is an examination designed to test clinical skill performance and competence in skills such as communication, clinical examination, and interpretation of results. Students rotate through the stations, completing all the stations on their circuit. In this way, all candidates take the same stations. The stations are standardized enabling fairer peer comparison and complex procedures can be assessed without endangering patients? health.

An Objectively Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) is an examination designed to test clinical skill performance and competence in skills such as communication, clinical examination, and interpretation of results. Students rotate through the stations, completing all the stations on their circuit. In this way, all candidates take the same stations. The stations are standardized enabling fairer peer comparison and complex procedures can be assessed without endangering patients? health.

This module will introduce students to the basic concepts of biostatics that later will be reinforced in other modules. Throughout the module, students will engage in lectures, active learning sessions, and independent study.

The course consists of lecture/discussion around topics pertinent to ambulatory medicine and the ethics of patient care. These discussions are interspersed with patient care experiences in various sites in Mobile and the adjacent area.

The course consists of lecture/discussion around topics pertinent to medical ethics, professionalism, cultural competence, communication, and biopsychosocial elements of patient care. Human development and substance abuse are covered. The course includes required community service. It is a longitudinal course that will run until the end of the Sophomore year. Discussions and reading are interspersed with patient care experiences.

An Objectively Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) is an examination designed to test clinical skill performance and competence in skills such as communication, clinical examination, and interpretation of results. Students rotate through the stations, completing all the stations on their circuit. In this way, all candidates take the same stations. The stations are standardized enabling fairer peer comparison and complex procedures can be assessed without endangering patients? health.

An Objectively Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) is an examination designed to test clinical skill performance and competence in skills such as communication, clinical examination, and interpretation of results. Students rotate through the stations, completing all the stations on their circuit. In this way, all candidates take the same stations. The stations are standardized enabling fairer peer comparison and complex procedures can be assessed without endangering patients? health.

The Integrated Clinical Science course is a two-week course at the end of the second semester of the second year taught by teams of basic science faculty and clinical faculty. The format incorporates predominately student-based presentations on prevalent medical conditions and ?clicker? quizzes are administered the day after on the material presented by the students. During student presentations, both basic science and clinical faculty are present to help reinforce material and ask appropriate questions. The objective of the two-week course is to reinforce the integration of the basic science material with the newly introduced clinical concepts.

The course consists of lecture/discussion around topics pertinent to ambulatory medicine and the ethics of patient care. These discussions are interspersed with patient care experiences in various sites in Mobile and the adjacent area.

The course is a continuation of the first year course but incorporates Medical Decision Making and Behavioral Sciences. Community Service is required. The final exam is a mini-board from the National Board of Medical Examiners; students are charged a fee to purchase this exam.

An Objectively Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) is an examination designed to test clinical skill performance and competence in skills such as communication, clinical examination, and interpretation of results. Students rotate through the stations, completing all the stations on their circuit. In this way, all candidates take the same stations. The stations are standardized enabling fairer peer comparison and complex procedures can be assessed without endangering patients? health.

An Objectively Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) is an examination designed to test clinical skill performance and competence in skills such as communication, clinical examination, and interpretation of results. Students rotate through the stations, completing all the stations on their circuit. In this way, all candidates take the same stations. The stations are standardized enabling fairer peer comparison and complex procedures can be assessed without endangering patients? health.

The students will be assigned to a 4 week schedule rotating through gynecology clinics, internal medicine clinics, mammography, cytology, and the Evaluation Center at Children's and Women's Hospital. They will also be exposed to clinical nutrition, medical ethics, student health issues, and gender-specific psycho-social issues.

To develop a health and wellness lifestyle plan based on personal goals developed from the scientific literature presented. Based on the scientific literature review, the student will assess how various lifestyle choices prevent against obesity, cardiovascular disease, diabetes and depression.

Completion of this elective should promote greater appreciation of self-management of personal health and wellness, and increase awareness of strategies/challenges associated with promoting healthy lifestyles in future patients.

The will includes lectures and workshops on topics such as Graduate Medical Education, Medical Ethics, Medical Jurisprudence, Malpractice: A Physicians Experience, Cultural Competence in Patient Care, End of Life Issues, Breaking Bad News to Patients, Handling Inappropriate Patients, Reviewing Professional Journal Articles & Pertinent Biostatistics, Financial Planning and Investment Professional Liability Insurance, Time Management for Residents and Physician Mental Hygiene.

Law and Medicine elective will introduce legal issues likely to be encountered by physicians in clinical medical practice and focus on preparing medical students to identify and manage such situations in an effective manner. An additional, integral component of the elective will be to provide contract negotiation training to the students, including learning the framework and fundamental terms and provisions of agreements typically presented to physicians following residency (in hospital, academic and private practice settings). Students will also learn the basics of medical malpractice litigation from the inception of a claim through resolution.