Department of Clinical Sciences

Courses

CH 5433: Orthopedics I

Credits 4.5
The lecture portion of this course presents the etiology, clinical presentation, orthopedic evaluation, and management of common musculoskeletal conditions of the spine, pelvis and extremities. The lab portion of this course emphasizes proper application and interpretation of orthopedic procedures to include inspection, palpation, ranges of motion, orthopedics tests, signs and maneuvers and the beginning aspects of recordkeeping.

CH 6323: Orthopedics II

Credits 3.5
The lecture portion of this course presents the etiology, clinical presentation, orthopedic evaluation, and management of less common musculoskeletal conditions of the spine, pelvis, and extremities with additional emphasis being placed on differential diagnosis. The lab portion of this course emphasizes mastery of the procedures taught in Orthopedics I as well as learning new, less commonly utilized procedures, and placing an increased emphasis on record keeping skills. In addition, the lab emphasizes practical application of the student’s diagnosis skills to the lecture topics through clinical cases. This course is a hybrid format with 1 hour of recorded, asynchronous lectures and the remaining hours provided in an in-person, traditional lecture and lab format.

CH 8440: Differential Diagnosis and Management

Credits 4.0
The focus of this course is to differentially diagnose and manage musculoskeletal and non-musculoskeletal conditions. The student will identify co-morbidities that may interfere with the management of the patient and determine if and when referral and/or collaborative care is warranted. The course will follow the principles of application-oriented curriculum utilizing multiple cases so the students will develop pattern recognition skills associated with clinical reasoning. The course will also utilize the principles of team-based learning in order to enhance their ability to engage in collaborative care. This course is presented in a recorded, asynchronous lecture format.

CH E111: Activator

This in-person provides instruction of assessment and utilization of the Activator tool and principles of instrument-assisted manipulative technique. The course is held in a scheduled weekend during the trimester and enrollers provided a certificate upon successful completion of the course requirements.

CP.CP 5220: Clinical Psychology

Credits 2.0
The course emphasizes the psychological basis of human health and illness as relevant to encountering and treating patients in a chiropractic clinical environment. DSM (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual) categories of anxiety, mood, psychotic, somatoform, personality, and other disorders/conditions are presented in terms of clinical signs, symptoms, diagnoses and treatments. Emphasis will be placed on identifying and managing those types of psychological conditions chiropractors are most likely to encounter in practice.

CP.EP 6220: Emergency Procedures

Credits 2.0
This course provides the student doctor with the necessary clinical skills to recognize a health emergency and perform the appropriate procedures to manage the emergency in a clinical or community setting.

CP.HP 5220: Health Promotion in Clinical Practice

Credits 2.0
This course is designed to use basic principles of epidemiology to assist the chiropractic intern in evidence-based health promotion and needs-based advising of patients in the clinical setting. The course is also designed to guide interns on how to identify and assess risk factors.

CP.TP 5220: Toxicology and Pharmacology

Credits 2.0
This course provides an introduction to the pharmacological principles of legend, over the counter, and herbal medicine with emphasis on those entities that affect neuromusculoskeletal mechanisms. Toxicology of the central nervous systems is integrated into the course material.

CP 2220: Basic Communication and History Taking Skills

Credits 2.0
This course serves as an introduction to the verbal and non-verbal communication skills necessary for effective patient interaction. The students practice the skills needed to obtain a basic history based on the patient’s chief complaint. They will also elicit basic information on past medical history, family history, review of systems, and current health status and effectively organize the gathered information to develop an initial problem list. Standardized patients will be used in both teaching and assessment to enhance the learning process.

CP 4110: Dermatology

Credits 1.0
This course is a survey of the etiology, pathology, diagnosis, and management of common dermatologic disorders likely to present to the chiropractic office. This course is an online format with 1 hour of recorded, asynchronous lectures.

CP 4220: Advanced Communication and History Taking Skills

Credits 2.0
This course will build upon the skills learned in the Basic Communication and History Taking Skills course. The students will practice the skills needed to address challenging patient communication issues such as handling the agitated patient, delivering bad news, and interacting with diverse patient populations. History taking and documentation skills will be honed to elicit sufficient secondary and tertiary information to obtain a more detailed history. The students will learn how to modify their patient history based upon the patient’s age, gender or cultural differences. Standardized patients will be used in both teaching and assessment to enhance the learning process.

CP 4543: Physical Examination and Diagnosis

Credits 5.5
This course incorporates didactic presentation and practical application of the cognitive and psychomotor skills necessary for the competent and thorough history and physical examination of a patient using standard instrumentation and procedures. This course focuses on utilization of anatomy, physiology and pathology to arrive at proper diagnosis based on appropriate evidence and sound clinical judgment. This course covers neurology, HEENT and visceral organs of the chest and abdomen.

CP 5440: Women & Children’s Health

Credits 4.0
This course studies normal and abnormal gestation, labor and delivery, and diseases of the female reproductive system as it relates to the clinical management and co-management of the female patient throughout her life. Additionally, this course addresses the neuro-musculoskeletal and visceral evaluation of the developing child from birth through adolescence with emphasis on examination, growth and development patterns, abnormalities, diseases, emergencies and nutrition.

CP 6542: Clinical Neurology

Credits 5.0
This course offers a didactic and practical approach to the study of the central and peripheral nervous systems with emphasis on the applied anatomy, physiology and symptomatology of the various pathologic states. The students will need to recognize common neurological presentations, formulate differential diagnoses, a final diagnosis, and determine viable methods for management. Cases will be presented in the course as a way to make these correlations. Standardized patients will be used to assess the students’ progress.

CP 7330: Clinical Laboratory Diagnosis

Credits 3.0
The use of the clinical laboratory in the diagnostic process. This Hybrid course is focused on the ordering, interpretation, and clinical application of various studies of the urine, blood, and feces. Weekly on-line references and readings accompanied by in-class quizzes and written assignments develop course content. This course is a hybrid format with 2 hours of recorded, asynchronous lectures and 1 hour of in-person instruction per week.

CP 7331.SA: Senior Adult Health and Wellness

Credits 3.5
This course will provide an introduction into the biology of aging and associated physiological and pathological changes that may occur in an older adult. This course will focus on chiropractic application in dealing with successful aging parameters, balance and mobility, senior fitness, common medical and psychological conditions seen in the elderly, nutritional advice, health screenings, and goal setting.

CP 7440.ID: Internal Diagnosis

Credits 4.0
This course provides the student with the opportunity to appreciate the diagnosis, differential diagnosis and appropriate management of the more common pathologies of the cardiovascular, respiratory, gastrointestinal, genitourinary and hepatobiliary systems. Appropriate radiologic, electrodiagnostic, and laboratory studies are included to enhance clinical understanding. Emphasis is placed on those conditions that might be seen by a chiropractor in general practice. This course is a hybrid format with 3 hours of recorded, asynchronous lectures blended with 1 hour of in-person instruction focusing on case presentation and interpretation.

DI 3220: Physics Principles of Diagnostic Imaging

Credits 2.0

This course is designed to give the chiropractic student a clinical working knowledge of the physics, radiobiology, technical principles, and issues of radiation safety/protections pertaining to the use of ionizing radiation in diagnostic imaging. This course is delivered in an asynchronous format.

DI 4322: Introduction to Imaging Interpretation

Credits 3.0

This course is online. Following a brief discussion of basic physical principles of x-ray production and film exposure, the student learns to recognize/identify x-ray appearance of normal axial and appendicular musculoskeletal anatomy and common normal variants of the musculoskeletal system. Lectures center around presentation of projected images and lab sessions provide small group instruction at the viewbox/monitors. This course is delivered in a hybrid format. 

DI 5660: Imaging Interpretation I

Credits 6.0
This course focuses on the diagnostic imaging findings associated with selected conditions in the categories of musculoskeletal trauma, arthritides, infectious diseases of the musculoskeletal system, and vascular diseases affecting bone. Pertinent clinical features are also discussed to stress the importance of correlating patient demographics, history, lab, and exam findings in developing differential diagnoses for conventional x-ray examinations. The complimentary application and findings of advanced imaging studies (primarily bone scan, MR and CT) are also included for these topics but are not covered in depth. This course is a hybrid format with 5 hours of recorded, asynchronous lectures blended with 1 hour of in-person instruction focusing on case presentation and imaging interpretation.

DI 7103: X-Ray Positioning

Credits 1.5
This course uses a hands-on approach to teach proper positioning of patients for plain film x-ray examination of the axial skeleton, appendicular skeleton, chest and abdomen. Students will practice and be able to demonstrate safe and efficient patient positioning in the diagnostic imaging lab using x-ray machines that produce no ionizing radiation but are otherwise similar in function to those used during their clinical internship at the Moody Health Center. Lab periods also provide an opportunity to review prerequisite material including basic x-ray physics principles, normal radiographic anatomy and pertinent radiobiology/safety issues. This course is a hybrid format with 1 hour of recorded, asynchronous lab preparation material blended with 2 hours of in-person, hands-on instruction focusing on proper patient radiographic positioning and machine utilization.

DI 7440: Imaging Interpretation II

Credits 4.0
This course is designed to give the student a practical, working knowledge of radiographic differential diagnosis, detailing the analysis of plain film x-ray for purposes of differential diagnosis and also highlighting the proper application of various advanced imaging modalities. Primary emphasis of advanced imaging topics will focus on computerized tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). This course is a hybrid format with 3 hours of recorded, asynchronous lecture and 1 hour of in-person, hands-on instruction focusing on case presentation and imaging interpretation.