History, Physicals and Diagnosis

This is a fun class that everyone passes. Just show up and enjoy it. It's good before the final clinical exam to practice doing a head to toe physical enough times that you have a script in your head you'll be able to use for the rest of your careers. It's also good to learn to think of this script in different chunks that can be executed in isolation. For example, you'll very rarely do a complete head to toe physical after this year, but you'll often want to do a cursory physical plus an involved physical of the system(s) related to the chief complaint.

Your grade is based on a 10 question quiz for each system and a final which is just like the quizzes but longer and cumulative. Lectures are mandatory. You can easily pass just by attending lectures and not reading anything, however Bates is a helpful textbook because it integrates a lot of subjects and shows you how your knowledge is applicable to clinical problems. "Pathophysiology for the Boards and Wards" is also great for these quizzes - it's an outline of clinical medicine that emphasizes physical findings. It's short and divided by organ system, so it can easily be read before each quiz.