[Students who entered prior to 2018-2019 completed MED110Y for weeks 12 through 36 in Year 1]
Course Director: Dr. Robert Goldberg
Course Duration: Weeks 9 through 25
CPC 1 is the first of three courses, all named Concepts Patients and Communities (1, 2 and 3 respectively) that employ the organizing structure of the human body’s physiological systems to offer students an integrated approach to clinical medicine. CPC 1 includes an introduction to pediatrics and health promotion followed by body systems that are responsible for host defence and oxygen delivery encompassing both normal and diseased states. It is divided into 8 sections: Pediatrics (1 week); Health Promotion (1 week); Microbiology (2 weeks); Immunology (2 weeks); Blood (2 weeks); Dermatology (1 week); Cardiovascular (4 weeks); and Respiratory (3 weeks).
Overall, CPC 1 provides students with:
- Integration of clinical manifestations, diagnosis, management and/or prevention of diseases of the systems described above with a focus on patient-centred clinical cases allowing students to develop clinical reasoning skills
- Integration of the foundational, social sciences, and humanities learned throughout the CPC courses to promote the development of cognitive integration skills
- Development of an expanding skill set of professional behaviours between students, teaching staff and patients
Patient-centred clinical cases are used to bring together foundational disciplines relevant to the study and practice of medicine, in a manner that promotes their cognitive integration by students. Each course week has its own objectives and assessments that contribute to the overall course objectives and final assessment, as well as to student achievement of the MD program’s key and enabling competencies.