Internal Medicine: Core Patient Encounters and Clinical Skills
UNR Med Year 3 Structure
Patient Encounters
- Abdominal pain, acute
- Acid-based disorders
- Acute Coronary Syndromes
- Acute Renal Failure / Acute Kidney Injury
- Chest pain
- Chronic Kidney Disease
- Colorectal cancer screening
- COPD
- Coronary artery disease
- Cough or wheeze
- Depression
- Diabetes mellitus
- Diarrhea
- Dizziness/vertigo
- Dyslipidemia
- Dyspnea
- Fever
- Gastrointestinal bleeding
- Headache, migraine or other
- Heart failure
- Hypertension
- Hypotension
- Joint, extremity, skeletal complaints
- Liver disease
- Nausea/vomiting
- Obesity
- Other (see Notes for details)
- Pneumonia
- Respiratory distress/shortness of breath
- Rheumatologic problems
- Sepsis
- Substance use, dependence/abuse
- Syncope
- Thyroid disease
- Venous thromboembolism
- Weakness (focal, generalized)
Clinical skills
- Clinical evaluation exam exercise (CEX)
- CSF results interpretation
- End of life issues
- Otoscopic examination
- Patient counseling-discharge instructions
- Prescription writing
- Prevention counseling
- Rectal examination
- Substance abuse screening
- Thoracentesis interpretation
- Thyroid examination
- X-ray interpretation, abdomen
- X-ray interpretation, chest