OM502 Oriental Internal Medicine II

OM502 Oriental Internal Medicine II                

3 Units/30 Hours
Prerequisites: OM401, OM402, OM450

This course is the second of a four-course series in Oriental Internal Medicine. The course will focus on the clinical application of Oriental Medicine in problem based learning. It will emphasize the clinical impressions and the formation of a working diagnosis, including acupuncture and Oriental medicine diagnoses, and the World Health Organization’s International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11), treatment including treatment planning, contraindications and complications, drug-herbs interaction, continuity of care, referral, collaboration, follow-up care, final review, functional outcome measurements, prognosis, and future medical care. The four-course series of Oriental Internal Medicine covers the clinical case from Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine specialties, including Family Medicine, Internal Medicine, Pediatrics, Geriatrics, Dermatology, Ophthalmology, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Orthopedics, Traumatology, and Emergency Care. OM502 focuses on Internal Medicine and Geriatrics (Emotional Disorder, Manic-depressive Psychosis, Parkinson’s, Epilepsy, Erectile dysfunction, GERD, Abdominal and Hypochondriac pain, Aggregation and Accumulation disorder, Ascites and Oedema, Hypertension, Apoplexy and Wind-stroke), Family Medicine (Headache, Dizziness, Vertigo)