Bedside Diagnosis Curriculum

Recommended basic, complete physical exam elements and sequence

1. The Nature of Medicine, the Placebo Response, and Hope - 7/7
2. Approach to Diagnostic Medicine - 7/14
3. Core concepts of Interviewing - 7/21
4. Vital Signs - 8/4
5. Head and Face - 8/11
6. Eye - 8/18
7. Ears, Nose, and Sinuses - 9/1
8. Oropharynx and Neck - 9/8
9. Chest wall and Breast - 9/15
10. Respiratory - 9/22
11. Abdomen - 10/6
12. Cardiovascular
13. Female genitalia - 2/9
14. Male genitalia, Hernias, and Rectal exam - 2/16
15. Bones and Joints, Upper body - 2/23
16. Bones and Joints, Lower body - 3/9
17. Lymph nodes - 3/16
18. Skin, non-infectious -
19. Skin, infectious -
20. Hair and Nails -
21. Neuromuscular I: Mental status, Meningeal signs, Cranial nerves -
22. Neuromuscular II: Motor, Reflexes, Sensory, Posture, Movement, Coordination, Vestibular -