Learning Objectives

Practical Learning Objectives

1. Use EMR to quickly scan a patient’s medical history to help with triage
2. Highlight the ‘chief complaint’ as a source of ambiguity in EMR records
3. Highlight the Personal Health Record (PHR) as a future mechanism of patient control and access to personal medical history
4. Highlight the use of intraoffice instant messaging as a private communication channel
5. Use a centralized medical health record to supplement an in-office EMR

Medical Learning Objectives

1. Rhonda:
   1. Recognize and manage a patient who may self-manage their condition and put themselves at risk by avoiding conventional evidence-based medical treatement.
   2. Choose the appropriate screening tests for hypothryoidism
   3. Recognize myxedema coma as a potential complicaiton of untreated hypothyroidism
2. Edith:
   1. Recognize a new onset aortic stenosis and manage accordingly
   2. Understand the potential physiologic effects of nitroglycerine in someone with aortic stenosis
3. Emil:
   1. Recognize and treat an upper GI bleed appropriately
   2. Recognize the indications for emergency treatement/investigation of an upper GI bleed
4. Omar:
   1. Recognize an isolated measurement of high blood pressure in a diabetic
   2. Choose an appropriate next steps to investigate a single elevated blood pressure measurement
5. Sheila
   1. Understand the contraindications for an IUD
   2. Understand appropriate investigations before inserting an IUD
   3. Understand potential complictions of inserting an IUD
   4. Understand the appropriate monitoring of IUD placement and efficacy