1. History-Taking: Describe your history taking scores and strengths you identified when gathering data. What went well?
Also, describe your challenges
... [Show More] in gathering data and list areas of your personal needed improvement. Note any missed
areas that could be safety issues/errors leading to missed or incorrect diagnosis.
The history taking score for my final attempt was 70%. The History taking is overwhelming to me. Going through the
available questions was difficult at first but with all the attempts I was able to identify where to locate various questions. It was
difficult to really narrow down the questions that were pertinent to this patient. I exhausted the number of questions I could ask
during one of the attempts. To do better in subsequent cases I need to limit my history to very targeted questions that is relevant
to the patient’s complaints.
2. Physical Exam: Describe your physical exam scores and strengths you identified when performing selected exams on
your patient. Did you perform an excessive amount of exam items? Did you miss any pertinent exam items identified in
the case leading to diagnosis? Note any missed areas that could be safety issues/errors leading to missed or incorrect
diagnosis.
Physical exam was a bit more tolerable. The score for the last attempt was 82%. Although I was more confident, I found
myself missing documentation for areas that required that I documented my findings. I will be more attentive in upcoming
cases and also carefully review resources on how to perform certain assessments more accurately.
3. Evidence-based decision making: Discuss the evidence-based resource(s) utilized while seeing the patient. These can be
your course readings/IHUMAN lessons/other course info as well as any external articles or supporting literature to help
you gain a better understanding of categorizing possible diagnoses in your case. How did you use the symptoms/patient
presentation, plus your exam findings, to formulate a differential diagnosis list? What specific feedback from previous
case studies has your faculty identified that you plan to incorporate on future cases to avoid pitfalls in data gathering or
decision making? What will you do differently to improve?
The required text readings from S2D and Dain was very beneficial espec [Show Less]