Spring 2027

Adult Orthopedics for the Non-orthopedist Elective

Adult Orthopedics for the Non-Orthopedist Elective provides direct patient care for orthopedic conditions in an ambulatory setting under supervision.

offering recorded2–4 credits
Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 No instructors listed

Summary

What you’ll be able to do

  • Perform a hypothesis-driven history and complete a targeted exam

  • Develop and present a weighted differential diagnosis for medical and surgical conditions

  • Using clinical evidence, adapt and justify the working diagnosis

  • Present a diagnostic plan including laboratory and imaging modalities

  • Correctly interpret imaging and laboratory findings and communicate results to patients and team members

  • Develop and implement effective patient management plans

  • Complete written documentation in a comprehensive, concise, accurate, and timely manner

  • Review, interpret, and present current literature to support patient care

  • Communicate effectively with patients, families, physicians and non-physician team members

  • Communicate and collaborate with consultants and/or primary team and other providers to coordinate care

  • Engage patients in shared decision making regarding tests, orders, and procedures

  • Avoid medical jargon when communicating with patients and families

  • Recognize limitations and seek assistance as appropriate

  • Understand the process of obtaining informed consent prior to surgical intervention

  • Recognize perioperative conditions that determine patient level of care and interpret physiologic changes that require changing that level of care

  • Perform minor procedures with supervision

  • Demonstrate the ability to manage time and understand, access, and utilize the resources and systems necessary to provide optimal patient care

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Prerequisites

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MED SC-M 810, 811, 812, and 813

RHABMED 940

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Spring 2027

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Student experience

the class

Direct patient care involving a spectrum of orthopedic conditions in an ambulatory setting with appropriate supervision by community orthopedic senior residents, fellows, and attending physicians. Participate in regularly scheduled supervisor-student meetings, which involve some or all of the following: rounding on service patients, participating in scheduled operative procedures, presenting cases and teaching topics, and discussing patient cases. Assess patients and generate weighted differential diagnoses, initial work-ups, and management plans. Independently read about patient conditions and prepare for direct patient care, as needed. Attend conferences associated with the assigned orthopedic surgery service. Complete other patient care-related learning activities as assigned by instructors; these are dependent on the individual student, the patients under the student's care, and the location.

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Topics

  • Spectrum of orthopedic conditions
  • Differential diagnosis, work-up, and management planning
  • Operative procedures
  • Orthopedic surgery service conferences

Skills

  • Hypothesis-driven history taking and targeted physical examination
  • Developing and presenting weighted differential diagnoses
  • Developing and implementing patient management plans
  • Performing minor procedures under supervision

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RHABMED 940 · Spring 2027

Adult Orthopedics for the Non-Orthopedist Elective

Recorded 2026-10-14
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Recorded 2026-10-14

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