Course Success - Organizing & Planning to Meet Course Outcomes
Each topic in this course is organized to provide an introduction and overview, then links to content and activities to help you learn and apply your knowledge.
Navigating to Course Resources
About the Syllabus - links to 11 minute video
Course Introduction - links to 7 minute video
Lesson Objectives - An Overview
Your learning is evaluated based on your abilility to demonstrate knowledge, skills, and abilities at the level described in the course and lesson objectives. How learning is assessed is described in your syllabus. You may notice "study guides" are directly linked to course and lesson objectives. Again, this is our way of guiding you to content and activities that will support your learning.
- Read the objectives for the lesson.
- Identify and prioritize resources to meet objectives (reading, lectures, videos, self-checks, assignments, forums, instructor messaging, notetaking, notecards, concept mapping)
- Reading effectively: Manage time and effort with text material by reading with the lesson level objectives in mind. This is the need-to-know content
- Revisit lesson objectives: are there areas that are unclear? Check with your peers and instructor to add clarity and confidence to your understanding
A Brief Comment About Abbreviations
As many clinics have moved to electronic medical records, the use of abbreviations is becoming less frequent. Clinics are just about as diverse as people, so I have selected what I feel are the more common abbreviations that you may encounter when reviewing free text from a provider in the medical record or in any handwritten notes. I suspect that within the next 10 years, there will be little to no use of abbreviations due to improvements in technology and a constant eye on ways to reduce medical errors.