This course is offered to sixth-year students based on the knowledge previously taken during the fourth year. Emphasis is placed on acquiring skills and attitudes desirable from a compassionate and understanding physician. Students record histories, physical examinations and laboratory data together with the diagnosis and treatment plans as well as drug side effects and drug-drug interactions (Clinical Pharmacology). They are taught how to develop sound clinical reasoning and responsibility for full time involvement in patient care including bed side teaching, morning reports, clinical rounds, outpatient clinic attendance and night calls. Each student works with and is supervised by a resident and attending staff.
