Neurology
Activity
Clerkship Teaching Session
Clerkship Teaching Session
Develop a broad differential diagnosis to rule out life/limb threatening pathologies, consider early investigations and management for the following presentations: Headache; Altered mental status; Weakness. Know when to call the interventional stroke team.
Curriculum Block
Clerkship / Emergency Medicine Rotation
- Indicates most relevant
Objectives
Clerkship Objectives
- Headache
- Abnormal behavior (psychosis, delirium, intoxication, violence).
- Dizziness / vertigo
- Demonstrate the ability to rapidly recognize and initiate basic management of acute life- or limb-threatening illness or injury
- Describe a basic differential diagnosis including the significant worst-case diagnosis for every patient assessed.
- Demonstrate a basic systematic, prioritized approach to resuscitation and stabilization of emergencies.
- Altered level of consciousness - including the recognition and management of acute stroke
- Seizure
Tags
AFMC National Clinical Skills
Neurological Examination
CanMEDS Roles
Medical Expert
Curriculum Block
Clerkship
Emergency Medicine Rotation
Discipline
Emergency Medicine
Neurology
General MCC Objectives
Clinical Judgement And Decision-Making
MCC Presentations
Cerebrovascular Accident and Transient Ischemic Attack (Stroke)
Headache
Weakness (not caused by Cerebrovascular Accident)
McMaster Program Competencies
2.2 Apply biomedical scientific principles fundamental to health care for patients and populations.
2.3 Apply principles of clinical sciences to diagnostic and therapeutic decision-making, clinical problem-solving, and other aspects of evidence-based healthcare
MeSH
Headache [C10.597.617.470]
Stroke [C14.907.253.855]
