This exploratory course covers social issues in medicine. Students will recognize and analyze the interrelationships between socio-cultural environments and the occurrence, prevention and treatment of disease. Students will also identify and nurture values that characterize a professional and humanistic practice of medicine and an ethic of service.

During this course students will recognize and analyze the interrelationships between socio-cultural environments and the occurrence, prevention and treatment of disease. Students will also identify and nurture values that characterize a professional and humanistic practice of medicine and an ethic of service.

FCM-1 aims to develop history taking, doctor-patient relationship building, physical examination, differential diagnosis, & diagnostic reasoning skills through case-based exercises. The course runs concurrently with & is integrated into Integrated Systems I. The goal of FCM 1 is to assist students in applying classroom learning in clinical care by presenting patient cases that challenge students to review and integrate key foundational material.

FCM-1 aims to develop history taking, doctor-patient relationship building, physical examination, differential diagnosis, and diagnostic reasoning skills through case-based exercises. The goal of FCM 1 is to assist students in applying classroom learning in clinical care by presenting patient cases that challenge students to review and integrate key foundational material.

As part of the Patient Student Partnership program in the Pre-Clerkship phase, students establish a doctor-patient relationship with their assigned patient. Students will get to know their patient on both a personal and medical level through narrative interviews; focus on developing their role as a patient advocate; learn how to navigate the EMR and conduct effective communication with their patient's providers in the EMR and through email.

As part of the Patient Student Partnership program in the Pre-Clerkship phase, students establish a doctor-patient relationship with their assigned patient. Students will get to know their patient on both a personal and medical level through narrative interviews; focus on developing their role as a patient advocate; learn how to navigate the EMR and conduct effective communication with their patient's providers in the EMR and through email.

Integrated Systems I is comprised of Orientation, EPIC, & Cells to Society; Foundations of Medicine; Microbes and the Immune System; and Cells, Blood, Cancers.

Integrated Systems III is comprise of Cardiovascular System; Pulmonary System; Renal System; Endocrine/ Reproductive System; and Classroom to Clinics.

For students in the dual degree program JD/MD.

Foundations of Clinical Medicine (FCM) continues during clerkships as FCM-2. This course comprises a mix of one-on-one meetings with the student's physician coach to reflect on performance, assess strengths and weakness, and co-create learning plans for continued development of clinical skills.