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Elevating FQHC Services: Compass Health Network’s Integration of GALE eClinics

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During the COVID-19 pandemic, the ability to perform remote physical exams, including listening to heart and lung sounds, became crucial. This integration ensures that patients receive comprehensive care despite the challenges of remote locations and limited resources.

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What to Expect During Medical School

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If you are more of a kinesthetic learner, then time spent on hospital rounds will be a great way to reinforce concepts. Interacting with patients Medical students start by learning to take a complete patient history and review of systems, then progress to the physical exam.

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Friday Reflection 27: The Poor Historian

Sensible Medicine

Many a medical trainee has been humiliated on morning rounds after proclaiming that their presentation was wanting because the “patient was a poor historian.” Often, the inability of a doctor to obtain a history is actually a physical exam finding – an extremely non-specific finding, but a finding nonetheless.

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What It’s Like to Work as a Podiatrist’s Medical Assistant

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They may also be responsible for: Greeting patients Scheduling appointments Updating patient files When it comes to clinical duties, podiatric medical assistants often take patient’s vital signs, obtain the patient’s medical history, perform physical exams, and discuss treatment procedures with the patient.

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General Medicine Service Expectations

Sensible Medicine

Data from the history and physical exam are critical and free. 2 When you present the physical exam, vital signs should be given in even numbers. Do not go to the bathroom while we are rounding. Never hesitate to go back to gather more information from your patients. Dress code Men: It is safest to dress like me.

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Accepted: Your Guide to CU School of Medicine [Episode 599]

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So, biochemistry, anatomy, organ systems, how to interview a patient, how to do a physical exam, all those types of things. And so if you’re seeing a patient in clinic and they get hospitalized, you might then go round on them in the inpatient hospital. It was a great overview, by the way.