PCM is a 4-year course designed for Loyola medical students to develop the
skills needed to become balanced, competent, patient-centered physicians with
life-long career satisfaction.
Patient Centered Medicine is based on the idea that the patient is at the center
of the health care team, and each member of the team must partner with all of
the other members of the team as well as the patient for the desired outcome of
health and happiness.
From the very first day of medical school, medical students are an important
part of that health care team. PCM will help students define their own roles as
learners and providers on this team. Therefore, this course has the expectation
that each student will work to his or her capacity at all times.
PCM requires the integration and synthesis of work learned in this and other
courses as well as experiences outside of the classroom. The expectation is that
every student has the goal of becoming the best physician (s)he can become, and
will actively work toward that goal in all PCM and SSOM activities. Students are
not passive learners in PCM and are expected to take responsibility for their
own education within the framework presented. This model is very different than
the undergraduate model of didactic lecture and student regurgitation of
knowledge.
Learning in PCM is based on lectures, small group discussions and significant
hands-on and experiential activities. These activities may include mentor
programs, shadowing programs, simulated patients- both virtual and actors, real
patient encounters, reflection papers and discussions, books and journal
articles, small group discussions and practice of skills learned, working with
ancillary health providers, and many skills workshops.
Topics will include eliciting basic medical history and counseling, performing
an introductory physical exam and other topics.
Your education is ‘embedded’ within a healthcare environment that requires us to
directly align with that healthcare organization regarding the required use of
Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), including face masks. Consequently,
regardless of your vaccination status, the school now requires that all faculty,
students, and staff wear an appropriate face mask covering in all common spaces
and classroom settings within the school and related buildings (Cuneo and
MNSON).
While our requirements may change in the future, currently we feel it is more
congruent and less confusing to require the use of a face mask whenever you are
within the school buildings.
Failure to comply with this requirement will be considered disruptive and a lack
of appropriate professional conduct. Accordingly, you will be asked to leave the
premises until you observe our required masking policy and in addition will
receive a note of concern in your professionalism competency file.
NOTE:
In this
class software will be used to record certain live class discussions. As a
student in this class, your participation in live class discussions may be
recorded. Recorded events will be limited to standardized patient interviews. Small groups will not be recorded.
These
recordings will be made available only to
students enrolled in the class, to serve as a resource for those who would like to review
their recorded interviews. All recordings will become unavailable to students in the
class when the course ends.
Facilitators will review recordings as part of
a student's assessment.
The use
of all video recordings will be in keeping with the University Privacy Statement
below:
Privacy
Statement
Assuring privacy
among faculty and students engaged in online and face-to-face
instructional activities helps promote open and robust conversations and
mitigates concerns that comments made within the context of the class will be
shared beyond the classroom. As such, recordings of instructional activities
occurring in online or face-to-face classes may be used solely for internal
class purposes by the faculty member and students registered for the course, and
only during the period in which the course is offered. Students will be informed
of such recordings by a statement in the syllabus for the course in which they
will be recorded. Instructors who wish to make subsequent use of recordings that
include student activity may do so only with informed written consent of
the students involved or if all student activity is removed from the recording.
Recordings including student activity that have been initiated by the instructor
may be retained by the instructor only for individual use.”