Primary Care of the Family I

Discussion Board Instructions Video Transcript

Hello students. This will provide you an overview of the discussion boards that will be required in this course. You will find that the format for all discussion boards is the same. So what you're going to do in one week will be the same in all subsequent weeks.

For your initial post, you are going to read the patient vignette and list 10 to 20 questions of subject of information that you need to get from your patient to help formulate your differential diagnoses and plan. So these are going to be your HPI and review of systems questions that you're going to ask your patient with information that you need to continue with your visit and formulate your differential diagnoses and plan. Please provide references for the questions that you ask of your patient. Meaning, what support can you find in the literature for why these questions are important? Your initial post is due by Day 3, which is Wednesday at 11:59 PM.

The next thing you're going to do in the discussion board is reply to one classmate's questions. So this will be your initial response post or your second post in the discussion board. So you're going to look for a peer's question list and answer as the patient. Make it case appropriative, but imaginative. You do not need references for this post, as you are simply replying to your classmate's questions as if you were the patient. Please note that every peer post should only have one response. If you see that a different classmate has already replied to a post and answered that peer's questions, please move on to a different post. Your initial response post is due by Friday, Day 5 at 11:59 PM.

The final post you will make in the discussion board is your reflective response, which is post three. In this post you're going to go back to your initial post and respond to your peer's reply and answers to your questions. So look at how your peers answered the questions that you originally posted and come up with four appropriate differential diagnoses and rationale. So based on the answers that your peers replied as the patient, develop four differentials and explain why they are relevant. You are then going to pick one of those differentials and create a plan of care for that patient. So based on the way that they answered your questions, what do you think is the most appropriate differential? And how would you develop a plan of care for a patient with that diagnosis? You do need references on this post. So please make sure that your plan of care and your differentials are supported by peer-reviewed evidence. This reflective response post is due by Sunday, which is Day 7 at 11:59 PM. If you have any questions, please reach out to your faculty.