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PTRM 7093 Clinical Decision Making for Complex Patient (Summer III)

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Credits: 3

Course Description:

This course will be structured to foster clinical reasoning and critical analysis skills in the areas of assessment, goal development, intervention design and discharge planning for patients with multiple co-morbidities. Guided by a disability model, students will identify learning issues, examine and critique resources, discuss readings, and contribute to their own learning as well as to that of others’ through small group interaction, laboratory experiences and lectures. Clinical cases will be introduced to facilitate the student’s ability to provide focused patient care. Group presentations will focus on key elements within the cases.

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