OCL 567 - Clinical Rounds I

Credit(s): 1

Clinical Rounds I and II continue the process of preparing students for clinical internship through observation of a licensed practitioner treating patients in a clinical setting. Over two quarters, students follow a faculty practitioner treating patients in one of the school’s teaching clinics.

Under the constant, direct supervision of the faculty practitioner, students will participate in case presentations and take chart notes, recording a patient’s history and exam results, as well as assessments and treatments for each patient they observe.

Students will have the opportunity to take patients’ pulses and observe their tongues to understand how these diagnostic elements factor into the instructor’s overall diagnosis and treatment. At appropriate times, students will have the opportunity to ask questions regarding each case.

Under the direct supervision of the faculty practitioner, students may participate in direct patient care by administering cupping, gua sha, tuina/shiatsu, and moxibustion as necessary.

Finally, as part of the overall strategy for developing the skills required of a successful practitioner, students will be responsible for cleaning and stocking the treatment rooms at the beginning and the end of each shift and preparing the room between patients. Corequisite(s): CL539