Primary Care Ambulatory Clerkship
Managed Care Modules
The primary objective of these managed care modules is to equip you with clinical reasoning skills and practices and practices suitable for the new managed care environment which are representative of sound medical practice. These skills include:
- A focus on disease prevention and health promotion
- Good history taking and physical examination skills
- Understanding clinical epidemiology
- Sound clinical decision making based on accurate scientific knowledge of knowledge of pathophysiology and evidence-based medicine
- Practice cost-effective care
Other objectives of these modules are to increase the delivery of standardized curriculum throughout MSUCOM's Statewide Campus System and to facilitate the integration of appropriate computer-mediated instruction, including accessing the internet, into the college curriculum, and into your practice of medicine.
Module 1: Introduction
The Role of The Physician in the Interface of Primary and Managed Care
Module 2:
Managed Care and Clinical Decision-making
- Pharyngitis
- Asthma
- Definitions
- Clinical Epidemiology/Evidence-based Medical Glossary
Module 3:
Module 4:
Review of Use of Computerized Case Simulations and their Relevance for Managed Care
These curricular resources were developed by John Greene, D.O., Mark Notman, Ph.D., and Margaret Kingry, Ph.D. Programming support was provided by Mark Hodgins, M.A. Administrative support was provided by Judy Fedewa and Annmarie Cook. Additional support was provided by the MSU Institute for Managed Care.