Knee Pain
Activity
Clinical Skills Sessions
Clinical Skills Sessions
Students will practice a case-based history and focused physical examination with a Standardized Patient. Students should spend approximately 1.5 hours of this 2-hour session practicing a focused history and physical exam. Max is a 45 year-old who presents to the Emergency Room with 3 days of Left knee pain.
Curriculum Block
Host Defense and Neoplasia / Integration Foundation / Part 5 / Week 2
- Indicates most relevant
Objectives
Activity Objectives
- To practice a history and physical exam for acute mono-arthritis, with focus on knee joint examination.
- To review can’t miss diagnoses for acute inflammatory monoarthritis.
- To practice motivational interviewing for a patient in a pre-contemplative stage of change with a focus on smoking cessation.
- To practice using likelihood ratios from the JAMA Rational Clinical Exam Article Does This Adult Patient Have Septic Arthritis to formulate a post-test probability of septic arthritis in this case.
- To discuss initial next steps in management including investigations in workup for acute inflammatory monoarthritis, and empiric antibiotics for septic arthritis.
Assessments
Objectives Structured Clinical Examination
Mid-Unit Clinical Skills Assessment
Tags
AFMC National Clinical Skills
Musculoskeletal Examination
Basic Sciences
Diagnosis
Curriculum Block
Host Defense and Neoplasia
Integration Foundation
Part 5
Week 2
Curriculum Week
IF
Week 2
Discipline
Emergency Medicine
Orthopedics
Rheumatology
MCC Presentations
Oligoarthralgia (Pain in One to Four Joints)
MeSH
Arthritis [C05.550.114]
Arthritis, Infectious [C01.100]
Arthrocentesis [E02.800.550.310]
Clinical Competence [I02.399.630.210]
Emergency Medicine [H02.403.250]
Knee Injuries [C26.558.554]
Knee Joint [A02.835.583.475]
Knee [A01.378.610.450]
Medical History Taking [E01.370.510]
Osteoarthritis, Knee [C05.550.114.606.500]
Physical Examination [E01.370.600]
