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Defining osteopathic medicine
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Teaching
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Teaching
Methods
- Interactive dynamic small group learning is the format for the majority of teaching.
- Non-clinic teaching by means of presentations discussions and interactive seminars.
- Clinic-based teaching is never greater than one tutor to five students and focuses on the patients under the student’s care. It is more structured in the early part of the course.
- Students often have varied medical backgrounds and thus are expected and facilitated to identify their own learning needs during the course.
- Teaching is provided by the faculty of the college which has a wide range of medical and osteopathic experience.
Students are required to keep a patient log throughout the course and a manipulative technique log in the latter stage of the course. These logs are not part of the assessment process may be used if a student’s performance is borderline in finals. The experience is learner centred and students will be required to demonstrate they are identifying and resolving their personal learning needs by a documented reflective process.
Assessments
- Four practical assessments
- Two written assessment
- Critical analysis assessment
- Final clinical assessment by external examiners
In order to monitor standards of assessments, and train examiners, some may be recorded on DVD. This is for educational purposes only, and the recordings are not available to review assessment results of individual students.
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