Education: Clinicals

OPEN OPPORTUNITY

TeachMeMedicine.org offers an open opportunity to gain skills for today’s medical world in a non-standard educational setting. Our mission is to offer medical education to all students, regardless of their economic status. The future expansion of medical care in low- and middle-income countries is specifically related to innovative capacity and the digital transformation of the current system of medical education. The demand for medical skills and medical providers has dramatically increased. However, high-quality medical education is expensive and not responsive to the current needs of the world’s population.

INNOVATION IN MEDICAL EDUCATION

TeachMeMedicine.org is the future of medical education. We bring innovation and improvement to the current medical education system. Medical knowledge can now be transferred without using the traditional teacher-student format.

NO CLASSES

TeachMeMedicine.org offers students the opportunity to study independently and at their own pace. Students have the freedom to explore topics and are graded by their preceptors. The concept of self-education thru a Medical School Independent Study Program (ISP) is not new. The ISP Programs have been around for decades and medical school graduates who went thru ISP program did just as well as those in the traditional program. What is unique about our ISP programs is that we are doing it tuition-free. 

APPRENTICESHIP SYSTEM

Apprenticeship system was how physicians used to be educated at the turn of the century.  We offer programs for those who want to become a clinical specialist thru apprenticeship in five to seven years. This program will replace the traditional college education, medical school, residency, and fellowship training.

Medical knowledge is now better explained and more accessible than ever before. Each student is assigned two physician preceptors that will mentor the students throughout their medical education providing guidance and clinical training. These preceptors include one online physician for academic studies and the other will be a local physician for clinical training.

Unlike the current medical education system, students here will not waste valuable time learning materials that they will never use in clinical practice. Instead, they will start learning from day one. As they study a particular disease, they will also learn relevant basic medical sciences including anatomy, histology, physiology, and pathology.

Traditional apprenticeship system is now needed now more than ever before because:

1. Rapid advances in all branches of medicine have made it difficult for even the specialists to keep up-to-date.

2. Many of the subjects that are taught during pre-medical and medical years of training have very little use in clinical practice.

3. Medical students do not get to care for an actual patient until their 7th year of training.

4. The ever-rising cost of medical education demands a change in the way physicians are trained with a median debt of between$170,000 and $200,000 for 84% of 2014’s graduating class in the US. 

5. Most physicians will only have two to three years of actual patient experience in their area of specialty upon graduation from residency or fellowship training.

6. To become a physician simply takes too long. It should not take 11-13 years to become a doctor.

Our Programs have the following advantages:

1. You start to learn medicine with patient contact from the first day of your medical education.

2. You are involved in patient care in the mornings and study in the afternoon or in the evenings.

3. Only areas that are relevant to medicine are taught during your medical training.

4. You will have years of actual patient experience upon completion of your Program 

5. There are no fees for registration or tuition for our programs before, during, and after the completion of these programs.

6. It takes only five to seven years to complete our Programs compared to the 13 years with the current system.

BUILDING SKILLS THE MEDICAL WORLD REQUIRES

Our entire program is designed to develop skills that the modern medical workplace requires for medical providers. Students don’t just learn medicine; they learn how to think, be creative, solve problems, and work on projects. The skills they learn are designed to teach them what medical providers need for today’s and tomorrow’s medical office, hospital, or clinic.

PROVIDING EFFECTIVE EDUCATION

The traditional educational system is not designed to suit everyone, which is fine, but there need to be alternatives. Our educational model is structured on preceptor-based learning. We don’t have any classes.

 PHYSICIAN PRECEPTORS

Physician Preceptors are an integral part of our program. We can help you locate a physician preceptor in your area once you are registered.

Clinical Specialist Program

We offer a program to train Clinical Specialists.

A clinical Specialist is a clinician who is trained in only one specific medical or surgical specialty such as urology, neurology, or rheumatology. Students here will start their training in the specialty program of their choice from day one. They follow the traditional medical education that uses an apprenticeship system.

Students are taught by specialists in their respective fields and are expected to learn only the areas that are relevant to their specialty concentration. Our program is rigid yet flexible; certain courses are required in a particular order, while there are others that students are free to explore. The length of courses ranges from one week to six months, depending on their depth and complexity. Students will attend the clinic with their preceptors during the day and study in the afternoon and evenings. The curriculum will be tailored based on the students’ previous academic background.

Prerequisite for Clinical Specialist Program is the completion of the High School Diploma. This program is obviously ideal for those are already working in a clinic with a physician and they wish to specialize in the same field.

To start the program, we need to locate a specialist physician in your area willing to provide quality training in the area of your choice. Since TeachMeMedicine’s Clinical Specialist Program is an online program, students are required to present a letter of intent from a physician to provide Specialty training to the applying individual. Upon submission of the letter, the physician is agreeing to teach the individual within the clinical environment and deliver the proper training necessary for completion of a Clinical Specialist certificate.

 CERTIFICATE OF COMPLETION

Medicine is a highly regulated field in part to protect patients. Unfortunately, many of these laws are actually hindering the introduction of new technologies into the healthcare field.

Telemedicine has been available for years and could have saved time and money for millions of patients over the last 10 years, but it is yet to become a mainstream reality.

Current regulations regarding licensing have also not kept up with the times when it comes to providing free medical education. To issue a diploma, a school has to be accredited. To become accredited, a school either has to have at least 10 million dollars or more in cash reserve or join the current medical schools, charge outrageous tuition, and graduate doctors with huge debt. We have not been able to convince accrediting agencies to modify this requirement so that students can graduate debt free.

Although we provide medical education, our programs currently will only allow you to become a medical assistant under existing laws. Medical assistants are not required to have a license. With up to seven years of actual patient experience, our students will be more than qualified to assist their attending physicians in their daily practice of medicine.

TeachMeMedicine.org currently does not grant a degree or diploma.  A certificate of completion at the end of our programs allows students to assist a licensed physician in the office setting.

Teach Me Medicine admission is merit-based so that everyone who wants to try will have the opportunity to obtain a quality education despite financial constraints. Our Program is tuition-free. There are no fees for registration or tuition before, during, and after completion of this program.

A high school diploma is the only requirement we have for admission. We do not have requirements for test scores, grades, recommendation letters, or extracurricular activities.

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Pre-clinical

Medical Terminology

Medical Terminology – This course teaches students the basics of medical terminology, and how to use it within the workplace to better assist their presiding physician. Various word components such as suffixes, prefixes, special endings, plural forms, abbreviations, symbols, key phrases, etc. will be taught. Students will learn the language system that medical terminology is and will be able to construct and build new terms. Students will also learn proper spelling and grammar pertaining to the medical field.

Physician Evaluation Form:

Download evaluation form here: PRE-CLINICAL PHYSICIAN EVALUATION FORM

Please rate the trainee on a scale of 1-5 for the following duties:

 (1) poor, (2) fair, (3) good, (4) very good, (5) outstanding

The exams will be pass or fail.

CURRICULUM EXAM CLINICAL PRECEPTOR ACADEMIC PRECEPTOR
PRE-CLINICAL
Universal Precautions
Infection Control
Vital Signs
Medical Terminology
Basic Emergency Medical Training
BLS
ACLS
ATLS

Introduction to Clinical Medicine

Physician Evaluation Form:

Download form here: Introduction to Clinical Medicin Evaluation Form

Please rate the trainee on a scale of 1-5 for the following duties:

 (1) poor, (2) fair, (3) good, (4) very good, (5) outstanding

The exams will be pass or fail.

Duties Required Exam Clinical Preceptor Academic Preceptor
Introduction to Clinical Medicine
Clinical Anatomy
Medical Records
Documentations
EMR
Effective Communication Skills
Patient-centered Interviewing Techniques
Chief Complaints
History of Present Illness
Past Medical History
Review of Systems
Vital Signs
Skin
Head and Neck
The Eye Exam
The Heart Exam
Heart Sounds
The Lung Exam
Lung Sounds
Abdominal Exam
Breast Exam
Pelvic Exam
Male Genital/Rectal Exam
Upper Extremities
Lower Extremities
Musculoskeletal Exam
Hand
Wrist
Elbow
Shoulder
Hip
Knee
Ankle and Foot
Mental Status Exam
Neurologic Exam
Physical Exam

Check List

History and Physical Examination Write-ups
Oral Presentation
Clinical Decision Making
Complete Physical Exam
Progress Notes

Prescription Writing

Physician Evaluation Form:

Download form here: Prescription Writing Evaluation Form

Please rate the trainee on a scale of 1-5 for the following duties:

 (1) poor, (2) fair, (3) good, (4) very good, (5) outstanding

The exams will be pass or fail.

Duties Required Exam Clinical Preceptor Academic Preceptor
Prescriptions
Basic Pharmacology
Prescription Writing
Controlled Drugs
Electronic Prescriptions
Prior Authorization
Medication Refills
Medication Review
Medication Monitoring
Drug Information

Laboratory Testing

Physician Evaluation Form:

Download form here: Laboratory Testing

Please rate the trainee on a scale of 1-5 for the following duties:

 (1) poor, (2) fair, (3) good, (4) very good, (5) outstanding

The exams will be pass or fail.

Duties Required Exam Clinical Preceptor Academic Preceptor
Laboratory
Indications for Testing
Laboratory Orders
CBC with Differential
BUN, Creatinine
LFTs
Urinalysis
ESR, CRP, Ferritin
CPK, Aldolase
PT, PTT, D-Dimer
Lipid Profile
TSH, Free T4
Vitamin B 12
25-OH Vitamin D
FBS, HgbA1C
ANA
RF, Anti-CCP
Lyme titers
Monospot
HIV
PSA
Urine Microalbumin
Mediaction Monitoring
Lab Instructions
Phlebotomy
Lab Test Interpretation

Imaging Studies