Diabetes Exam: Practice Case – A Patient with Diabetes
Activity
Clinical Skills Sessions
Clinical Skills Sessions
To learn the Diabetic history & physical examination. Pro Comp connection – Indigenous Health and Diabetes Mellitus – Strengths-Based Approaches: Diabetes Canada, in its 2018 guidelines highlight social determinants of health play an important role in risk of
diabetes and complications. It is important to understand more holistically the structural determinants of health, particularly
colonialism, and its cascading effects on the social determinants of health including access to nutrition, employment, education
and experiences in healthcare, and how these structural and social determinants impact the risk of diabetes in Indigenous
population.
Curriculum Block
Endocrinology / Medical Foundation 3 / Part 3 / Week 1
- Indicates most relevant
Assessments
Objectives Structured Clinical Examination
Mid-Unit Clinical Skills Assessment
Tags
AFMC National Clinical Skills
General Physical Examination
Curriculum Block
Endocrinology
Medical Foundation 3
Part 3
Week 1
Curriculum Week
Part 3
Week 5
Discipline
Indigenous Health
General MCC Objectives
Physical Examination
Longitudinal Discipline
Indigenous Health
Priority Groups
MCC Presentations
Diabetes Mellitus
Indigenous Health
McMaster Program Competencies
1.1 Gather essential and accurate information about patients and their health through history-taking, physical examination, and the use of laboratory data, imaging, and other tests.
1.3 Interpret laboratory data, imaging studies, and other tests required for the area of practice
2.3 Apply principles of clinical sciences to diagnostic and therapeutic decision-making, clinical problem-solving, and other aspects of evidence-based healthcare
2.5 Apply principles of socio-behavioural sciences to the provision of patient care, including assessment of the impact of psychosocial and cultural influences on health, disease, care-seeking, care concordance, care adherence and barriers to and attitudes toward care.
3.1 Solicit and respond to feedback from peers, teachers, supervisors, patients, families, and members of health care teams regarding one’s knowledge, skills, attitudes and professional behaviours
3.2 Integrate feedback, external measures of performance and reflective practices to identify strengths, deficiencies, and limits in one’s knowledge, skills, attitudes and professional behaviours
3.3 Set learning and improvement goals
4.1 Communicate effectively with patients, families, and the public, as appropriate, across a broad range of socioeconomic and sociocultural backgrounds
MeSH
Clinical Competence [I02.399.630.210]
Colonialism [I01.696.116]
Diabetes Mellitus [C19.246]
Indigenous Canadians [M01.270.968.500.600.375]
Indigenous Canadians [M01.270.968.500.600.375]
Physical Examination [E01.370.600]
Social Determinants of Health [N01.400.675]
