CM 712 - Clinical Medicine I

Credit(s): 4.00

The Clinical Medicine I-III series builds upon foundational material in the development of clinical reasoning. It addresses disease etiology, pattern differentiation and treatment strategies, including a focus on prognosis, long-term case management, referral and co-management, and issues of cultural literacy. The series takes a systematic and integrative approach to all major areas of the body (organized by upper, middle, and lower jiao) and the conditions associated with them. Particular attention is given to the pathological categories more commonly seen in practice in the US, as well as the diseases internationally recognized to be global epidemics. Patient cases are viewed through multiple lenses (including biomedicine and pattern diagnosis) using the classical texts of Chinese medicine as the primary source of guidance. Multiple faculty are involved in delivering their lineage approaches to diagnosis and treatment. Clinical Medicine I begins with an emphasis on bian bing that occur in the upper jiao, including everything from sinusitis and headaches to neurology, depression and dermatology. Prerequisite(s): Third-year status; These courses are to be taken in the ordered sequence of CM712, CM722 and CM732. Corequisite(s): CM710