In this FREE lesson you will meet Dr. Hill, author of Medical Investigation 101 and course instructor. He will outline his goals for your learning in the course. Find out why YOU will benefit from investing your time and money on Medical Investigation 101.
Welcome to Medical Investigation 101. In Lesson 1 you will learn how the course is divided into three sections: Healthcare Careers, The Medical Examination, & Case Histories & Anatomy/Physiology. We also discuss the "Art" vs "Science" of medical practice.
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Lesson 2 discusses the available paths on the road to a medical degree and the choices and training required to enter primary care, specialist, or even sub-specialist medical practice. We also learn how hybrid thinking, combining human intelligence with artificial intelligence, is affecting medical practice.
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Lesson 3 teaches the role of primary care physicians and who fills that role. You will also learn about triage, treat, and refer. Finally, we will play the "Treat or Refer Game".
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Lesson 4 discusses the difference between primary care and specialists, and provides many examples of specialist roles to consider following medical school.
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Lesson 5 provides insights into additional training requirements to pursue a medical sub-specialty. Examples of sub-specialties are discussed.
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The medical support team administers the majority of actual patient care. We discuss many good-paying career opportunities in healthcare that require significantly less training than medical school.
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Lesson 7 demonstrates the process of physician referrals to support team experts in evaluation or treatment. You will act as the family physician and select the referral you think can best assist the care of your patients. At the end we will compare notes to see how you did.
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Lesson 8 discusses the origin of of medical diagnosis and introduces the components of the medical examination leading to medical diagnosis. Finally we discusses the importance of both Science and Art in medical practice.
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Lesson 9 discusses the importance of determining the chief complaint and asking lots of questions in order to direct the medical examination. We discuss the important questions that help guide us to a differential diagnosis.
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Lesson 10 discusses the importance of taking a good medical history and the type of questions asked to obtain vital information to your medical investigation.
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Lesson 11 reviews the importance of ensuring the patient didn't leave anything out from their medical history by going over each body system with the patient. We also discuss the importance of using care when abbreviating when writing medical notes.
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Lesson 12 reviews the importance of reviewing each body system in the examination of any new patient. We also discuss the basic tools physicians use in their exam.
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Lesson 13 reviews the importance and purpose of the "Differential Diagnosis" and compares it to a police line-up. We also discuss how it can be difficult to solve medical mysteries due to the extensive list sometimes encountered.
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Lesson 14 discusses the importance of making the correct diagnosis and the three classifications of diagnoses.
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Lesson 15 reviews the SOAP technique for notetaking on follow-up patients, and how SOAP notes help keep the physician organized and ready for each patient.
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FREE Lesson 16 briefly describes what was taught in Parts 1 and 2 of Medical Investigation 101. It also summarizes the way in which lessons in Part 3 are organized and how they utilize the knowledge gained in Parts 1 and 2 of the course.
Lesson 17 discusses a patient who presents with difficulty breathing. We work through our mental differential diagnosis and rule out until limiting of differential diagnosis to our final two possibilities, which are further analyzed in Lesson 18.
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Lesson 18 further analyzes the final considerations from our differential diagnosis and develops a treatment plan for the patient.
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Lesson 19 reviews the basic division of the abdomen into four quadrants and the structures within each quadrant. It stresses the importance of viewing the patient as though they were seen in a mirror.
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Lesson 20 discusses a patient complaining of abdominal pain and leads an investigation to the source of the pain and plan to resolve the problem.
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Lesson 21 offers a brief history of how we came to understand microbes and how they adapt to changing environment. We explain why our evolutionary advantage does not work as well in our fight against pathogenic microbes as we might hope.
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Lesson 22 discusses the types of microbes and methods by which they are communicated with others.
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Lesson 23 introduces viruses as non-living microbes than require a host for survival. We introduce several common viral illnesses.
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Lesson 24 discusses characteristics of bacteria that allow them to build immunity to our antibiotics. Common bacterial infections are introduced, but not all bacteria cause illness.
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Lesson 25 discusses how protozoans differ from bacteria and viruses and introduces common illnesses caused by protozoans.
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Lesson 26 discusses how fungus differs from bacteria, virus, and protozoa. It introduces good and harmful fungus, and discusses the difficulty of treating fungal infections.
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Lesson 27 reviews some reasons rib area pain occurs. It discusses the purpose of re-examining your patients whose illness does not follow the expected course. Together we find the clue that leads us to the diagnosis.
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Lesson 28 discusses the relationship of Shingles and Chicken Pox. It suggests proper wound care to prevent spreading Chicken Pox from Shingles blisters. It reviews the importance of vaccination for prevention of Chicken Pox and Shingles. It encourages everyone to consider getting vaccinated against Chicken Pox or, if over 40 and having experienced Chicken Pox already, vaccination against Shingles.
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In Lesson 29 we evaluate a patient complaining of a sore throat. You have an opportunity to think about which tests to order and treatment plan to implement for this patient. We also discuss the reason we get a fever when we have an infection.
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Lesson 30 introduces the components of our blood and the function of each. You will learn how blood changes when we become ill. Finally, we answer the question of way blood looks blue through our skin, but red when we bleed.
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Lesson 31 is probably the most important lesson of the course. You will learn how to react should you come across an emergency situation. It also discusses current thinking about dealing with emergency patients in the field. This lesson can provide the knowledge you need to save a friend of family member.
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Lesson 32 explains the many causes of chest pain and why finding the diagnosis as soon as possible can be critical.
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Lesson 33 demonstrates cross-referrals of a patient having chronic conditions of Type II Diabetes and Osteoarthritis. We discuss the implications of his diabetes on his arthritis treatment. Finally, we review how physicians monitor diabetic control in their patients.
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Lesson 34 discusses diabetes, how the incidence of diabetes is growing, and the cause. We also learn about insulin and glucagon, their functions and where they are manufactured. We distinguish between Type I and Type II diabetes. The many complications associated with poor diabetic control are reviewed. Finally, methods to minimize your risk for diabetes are provided.
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Lesson 35 discusses the classification of pain by duration, and illustrates how symmetry and the pain scale are useful in the diagnostic process. We also focus on using the least expensive & least invasive test that will provide the required information while evaluating a case of shoulder pain.
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Lesson 36 describes types and composition of joints, and how bones are connected and joints destroyed.
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Lesson 37 investigations a patient who complains of fever and cough, two very common non-specific complaints physicians hear. We learn about an airborne illness that kills over a million people each year.
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Lesson 38 discusses drug resistance and how organisms outsmart human science to develop resistance to the antibiotics we make to control them.
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Lessons 39 discusses the phases and contents of the respiratory system. We discuss the content of air at sea level vs. mountain tops. Finally, we review the damage to the respiratory system caused by smoking.
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Lesson 40 follows a patient having complaints of pain with dark-colored urine through evaluation and diagnosis of a genetically transmitted disease. Who will give the patient the bad news?
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Lesson 41 reveals the purposes for continually filtering blood through our kidneys. We discuss the mechanisms that control when we empty our bladder. We review the path from urine production to elimination. Lastly, we review what happens when your bladder sphincter fails.
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Lesson 42 provides an example of a patient presenting with the dreaded "Weak & Dizzy" chief complaint. We address the importance of re-examining the patient when progress is not forthcoming. We diagnose a case of chemical toxicity by noting Mee's lines.
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Lesson 43 discusses potential dangers in our everyday environment. We remind of the balance between advantages and potential dangers of new technologies. We wonder whether we should be optimistic about the future of our environment.
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Lesson 44 illustrate the types of organisms causing 'food poisoning'. It relates how our foods become contaminated. Finally, we discuss the various bacteria causing bacterial foodborne illness.
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Lesson 45 review how our food become contaminated to cause foodborne illness. It reports on two viruses, one of which causes about half of all foodborne illness worldwide.
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Lesson 46 reviews the causes of foodborne illness, how food becomes contaminated, and the parasites that cause foodborne illness.
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Lesson 47 reviews methods of food contamination and details things everyone can and should do to prevent food poisoning from occurring at home.
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Lesson 48 tracks a patient who becomes ill following poor food handling choices. You help make the diagnosis by using the analytical skills you have learned.
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Lesson 49 discusses where physicians most frequently practice their skills and how they are able to treat complex mysteries rapidly. Doctors take an oath to help whenever their skills are required.
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Lesson 50 demonstrates how physicians can be called upon at any time to help. This case involves a basketball player who suddenly becomes unconscious with fixed & dilated pupils. What should you, the physician, do?
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Lesson 51 considers how our eyes see light, not images, and how vision is coordinated between our two eyes and our brain. It also covers things that can go wrong wrong at each step along the way.
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Lesson 52 reveals the basic gross structure of the brain and their functions. It also mentions two ways a stroke can inhibit the brain's ability to carry out its jobs. Finally, we discuss the unreliable concept of right vs left brain.
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Lesson 53 enlightens you about what occurs within the cells of your brain, the basic electro-chemical process and how insulators protect us from signals traveling down the wrong path. Finally, we discuss the concept of 'backpropogation'.
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Lesson 54: Normal does not happen by accident; everything measurable has a control. We use the analogy of our home furnace to demonstrate open vs closed loop systems and compare them to the manner in which our own bodies maintain a regulated temperature.
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In Lesson 55 we look back at the challenge to teachers presented by John Dewey. Then we evaluate where we began in the treatment of cancer compared to where we may be going in the treatment of this disease and many others.
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In Lesson 56 we reveal the difficult discussions physicians have with patients and their families about end of life decisions. We strongly recommend have a medical directive so our family is not place in that difficult position of trying to figure out what you would have preferred.
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Congratulations on successfully completely Medical Investigation 101!
The final exam allows you to determine how well you learned the material in the clinical portion of this course. Regardless of your future career, you have learned skills that will impact the way you analyze problems moving forward.
Thank you for allowing me to share my insights with you. Your certificate of completion is attached.
