Students ensure patient safety and provide basic care and comfort.
Assignments
- Patient Care Rounds: Post-Operative Check-In (John Larsen)
- Patient Care Rounds: Infection Control (Su Yeong-Jun)
- Patient Care Rounds: Bowel Diversion (Miguel Flores)
- Patient Care Rounds: Pressure Injury (Isabella Fischer)
- Patient Care Rounds: Complex Post-Operative Care (Sonia Best)
Students build skills to gather and synthesize data across the lifespan in a systematic manner through their care of Digital Standardized Patients.
Assignments
- Single System Exams (Health History; HEENT; Respiratory; Cardiovascular; Abdominal; Musculoskeletal; Neurological; Skin, Hair, Nails; Discharge)
- Comprehensive Assessment (Tina Jones)
- Focused Exam: Cough (Danny Rivera)
- Focused Exam: Chest Pain (Brian Foster)
- Focused Exam: Abdominal Pain (Esther Park)
- Conversation Concept Lab (Rachel Adler)
- Respiratory Concept Lab
- Cardiovascular Concept Lab
- Abdominal Concept Lab
Students practice skills essential to safe medication administration, preparing them to meet patient needs effectively and confidently in the clinical setting.
Assignments
- Basic Patient Case (John Larsen)
- Intermediate Patient Case (Tina Jones)
- Complex Patient Case (Doris Turner)
- Intermediate Patient Case (Edward Carter)
- Basic Medication Math
- Intermediate Medication Math
- Complex Medication Math
- Anti-Asthmatics
- Antihypertensives
- Antidiabetics
- Analgesics
- Anti-Infectives
Students practice recognizing changes in patient status and determining correct interventions.
Assignments
- Endocrine System Hourly Rounds (Fatima Khan)
- Perioperative Care Hourly Rounds (Sonia Best)
- Respiratory System Hourly Rounds (Richard Trottier)
- Gastrointestinal System Hourly Rounds (Scott Becker)
- Renal System Hourly Rounds (Arturo Perez)
- Complex Assessment: Generalized Weakness (Minerva Garcia)
- Complex Assessment: Unresponsive (Taylor Herndon)
- Complex Assessment: Arrhythmia (Martin Francis)
- Complex Assessment: End-Stage Heart Failure (Vandana Kumar)
- Complex Assessment: Cardiac Intervention (James Morris)
Students engage with a set of patients who are experiencing a variety of mental health conditions.
Assignments
- Focused Exam: Schizophrenia (Eric Ford)
- Focused Exam: Anxiety (John Larsen)
- Focused Exam: Depression (Abigail Harris)
- Focused Exam: Bipolar Disorder (Lucas Callahan)
- Focused Exam: Alcohol Use Disorder (Rachel Adler)
- Focused Exam: PSTD (Nicole Diaz)
Students provide holistic care during the prenatal, intrapartum, and postpartum periods of pregnancy.
Assignments
- Focused Exam: Preterm Labor (Darlene Hall)
- Focused Exam: OB Triage (Amber Rhodes)
- Focused Exam: Uncomplicated Delivery (Daanis LaFontaine)
- Focused Exam: Gestational Diabetes (Jennifer Wu)
- Focused Exam: Preeclampsia (Naomi Adebayo)
- Focused Exam: Non-Reassuring Fetal Status (Luna Morales)
- Focused Exam: Postpartum Care (Gloria Hernandez)
Students provide care for patients, who range in age from infant to adolescent, and their family units.
Assignments
- Focused Exam: Respiratory Syncytial Virus (Eden Wu)
- Focused Exam: Asthma Exacerbation (Gabriel Martinez)
- Focused Exam: Type 1 Diabetes (Chelsea Warren)
- Focused Exam: Traumatic Brain Injury (Damien Brooks)
- Focused Exam: Long Bone Fracture (Landon Smith)
Students interact with a diverse range of older adult patients, gathering data to assess risk for geriatric syndromes and Beers Criteria® medication contraindications.
Assignments
- Focused Exam: Pain (Edward Carter)
- Focused Exam: Mobility (Robert Hall)
- Focused Exam: Infection (Patricia Young)
- Focused Exam: Cognition (Esther Park)
- Focused Exam: End of Life (Regina Walker)
Students explore a systems-view approach to healthcare – assessing community strengths and weaknesses, tracing the spread of disease, advocating for vulnerable populations, treating individual patients, and creating a care plan for the community.
Assignments
- Welcome to Shadowville
- Community Assessment
- Home Health Visit
- HIV Diagnosis with Contact Tracing
- Comprehensive Assessment with Barriers to Care
- Community Care Plan: Environmental Exposure
Students put key pieces together – including prioritization, delegation, and working as part of a team – to manage multiple patients.
Assignments
- Assignment 1: Prioritization and Introduction to Leadership
- Assignment 2: Delegation
- Assignment 3: Conflict Management
- Assignment 4: Ethics
- Assignment 5: Change Management and Patient Advocacy
- Assignment 6: Discharge and Conclusion
Students develop a foundational understanding of the pathophysiologic basis of disease processes.
Assignments
- The Cardiovascular System and Common Alterations
- Cells, Genes, Tissues, and Common Alterations
- The Pulmonary System and Common Alterations
- The Gastrointestinal System and Common Alterations
- The Nervous System Part 1: Structure and Function
- The Nervous System Part 2: Common Alterations