Neuro Clinical Skills
Activity
Clinical Skills Practice Sessions
Clinical Skills Practice Sessions
These practice sessions are intended to improve standardization of teaching across groups and to provide tutorial groups with opportunities to focus on areas of particular concern to the group.
Curriculum Block
Medical Foundation 4 / Neuroscience / Part 4
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Objectives
General Objectives
- Mental status: MMSE (if the patient is not in delirium) and aphasias, level of consciousness.
- Cranial nerves examination.
- Motor system: inspection, tone strength, coordination, power grading (1 to 5), reflexes (grading), Babinski response, gait and posture.
- Cerebelar testing: Romberg, standing balance, pointing, tremor.
- Ophthalmology examination.
- Special tests: primitive reflexes, meningitis.
- Correlate clinical findings with neurophysiology (EEG, EVP, EMG).
Tags
AFMC National Clinical Skills
Neurological Examination
Curriculum Block
Medical Foundation 4
Neuroscience
Part 4
Curriculum Week
Part 4
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
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
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]
