Welcome to the University of Colorado School of Medicine on the Anschutz Medical Campus. A Top Ten Medical School, our departments, centers and institutes work with the University of Colorado Hospital, The Children's Hospital and Barbara Davis Center.

CLINICAL SKILLS AND REASONING
Historical Data Gathering  

• Obtain accurate history from patient using a systems based approach
• Seek and obtain additional information from secondary sources (ex. family, medical record, pharmacy, allied health professionals) when the patient presents and throughout the duration of their care episode

Physical Exam

• Perform an introductory physical exam on a patient with a musculoskeletal complaint
• Recognize normal and abnormal findings
• Correlate physical exam with imaging studies

Clinical Reasoning

• Synthesize a differential diagnosis and treatment plan from available data, including history, physical examination, laboratory, and imaging.
• Develop initial and long-term diagnostic and therapeutic management plans with the assistance of senior team members (including patient education, prevention and health maintenance).

PATIENT-CENTERED CLINICAL SKILLS AND REASONING

• Gather data that defines both the disease and the illness experience (patient perspective, expectations and the illness’ effect on their functioning, preferences for care) and develop diagnostic / management plans that account for these variables.
• Develop diagnostic and management plans to find common ground in identifying problems, goals and roles

Core knowledge of musculoskeletal care with focus on the outpatient setting

• Demonstrates knowledge to identify common musculoskeletal conditionss
• Demonstrates knowledge of metabolic bone disease related to basic science
• Core Knowledge areas

Common modalities used in the practice of musculoskeletal medicine

• Demonstrates knowledge to interpret basic clinical tests and imaging commonly encountered in the outpatient setting.
• Modalities

LEARNING AND IMPROVEMENT BY ANSWERING CLINICAL QUESTIONS BASED ON PATIENT CARE SCENARIOS

Locate, evaluate, and assimilate scientific evidence related to patient’s health care problems.

Learning and improvement by answering clinical questions based on patient care scenarios
Locate, evaluate, and assimilate scientific evidence related to patient’s health care problems.

Ask answerable questions for emerging information needs

• Identify clinical questions as they arise in patient care activities

Acquire best evidence

• Access medical information resources to answer clinical questions
• Effectively search evidence based medicine resources to obtain original primary literature

Apply the evidence to decision making for individual patients

• With assistance, determines if evidence can be generalizable to individual patients

Learning and Improving via Feedback
With assistance, identify strengths and limits in one’s knowledge and performance. Set learning and improvement goals.

Improves via feedback

• Respond productively to feedback from all members of the team
• Seek, with prompting, feedback from faculty and residents

Improves via self-reflection

• With assistance, reflect on feedback to develop plans for improvement

PATIENTS AND FAMILY

Communicate effectively with patients and families, across a broad range of cultural, literacy and socioeconomic backgrounds.

Communicate Effectively

• Timely and effective written and verbal communication to pts
• Use verbal and non-verbal skills to establish rapport with pts/families

Intercultural Sensitivity

• Effectively use an interpreter during appropriate pt care scenarios.
• Demonstrate sensitivity to pts including but not limited to differences in race, gender, sexual orientation, and literacy.
• Actively seek to understand patient differences and patient perspective