Curriculum Objective
Objective
Clerkship Objectives
The student will build on their basic science, physiology, and clinical examination skills as it pertains to the structure and function the bones, joints, muscle, and connective tissues.

Curriculum Block

Clerkship / Orthopedic Surgery Rotation
- Indicates most relevant

Activities

Clinical Exposure

Tags

AFMC Entrustable Professional Activities
1. Obtain a history and perform a physical examination adapted to the patient’s clinical situation 2. Formulate and justify a prioritized differential diagnosis 3. Formulate an initial plan of investigation based on the diagnostic hypotheses 4. Interpret and communicate results of common diagnostic and screening tests 5. Formulate, communicate and implement management plans 6. Present oral and written reports that document a clinical encounter
AFMC National Clinical Skills
Musculoskeletal Examination
Basic Sciences
Diagnosis
CanMEDS Roles
Medical Expert Perform a complete and appropriate assessment of a patient;
Curriculum Block
Clerkship Orthopedic Surgery Rotation
Discipline
Orthopedics Surgery
General MCC Objectives
History Physical Examination Investigations Clinical Judgement And Decision-Making Management Skills
McMaster Program Competencies
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 2.1 Demonstrate an understanding of what knowledge is, the strengths and limitations of different ways of knowing, and how knowledge is created in historical, cultural and social contexts. 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 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 3.4 Identify and perform learning activities that address one’s gaps in knowledge, skills, and/or attitudes 2.4 Apply principles of epidemiological sciences to the identification of health problems, risk factors, treatment strategies, resource allocation, and disease prevention/health promotion efforts for patients and populations 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. 3.5 Understand principles of continuous quality improvement and how to incorporate them into practice improvement 2.6 Understand the process of the dissemination, application, and translation of new health knowledges and practices. 3.6 Locate, appraise, and incorporate evidence from research related to patients’ health problems and the provision of healthcare 3.8 Obtain and use information about individual patients and their caregivers, populations of patients, or communities with which patients identify to improve care 3.9 Continually identify, analyze, and implement new knowledge, guidelines, standards, technologies, products, or services that have been demonstrated to improve outcomes
MeSH
Physical Examination [E01.370.600] Medical History Taking [E01.370.510] Patient Care Management [N04.590]

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