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Goals and Learning Objectives
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Online Preventive Medicine
and
Health Promotion Elective |
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Provides students
with baseline understanding of principles of prevention and health
promotion and assists students in reconciling conflicting recommendations
and guidelines among expert organizations.
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Describes basic
concepts in epidemiology as they relate to clinical prevention and health
promotion, including risk factor assessment, risk stratification, and
testing features (sensitivity, specificity, positive and negative
predictive value).
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Distinguishes
between primary, secondary and tertiary preventive services.
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Outlines gender and
age-specific recommendations for disease prevention and health promotion.
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Identifies and
develops strategies that address patient, physician, and systems-level
barriers to delivery of preventive care.
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Identifies and
assess the quality of resources for self and patient education on
behavioral modification strategies.
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Encourages students
to apply and share knowledge gained through the development of an
educational module about disease prevention and health promotion in an
area of interest.
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Helps students apply
knowledge of prevention and health promotion in a broad range of settings.
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Provides necessary
tools and information for students to counsel patients effectively on
general and condition-specific behavioral modification strategies.
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