Bedside Diagnosis Curriculum

Recommended basic, complete physical exam elements and sequence

1. The Nature of Medicine, the Placebo Response, and Hope -
2. Approach to Diagnostic Medicine -
3. Core concepts of Interviewing -
4. Vital Signs -
5. Head and Face -
6. Eye -
7. Ears, Nose, and Sinuses -
8. Oropharynx and Neck -
9. Chest wall and Breast -
10. Respiratory -
11. Abdomen -
12. Cardiovascular
13. Female genitalia -
14. Male genitalia, Hernias, and Rectal exam -
15. Bones and Joints, Upper body -
16. Bones and Joints, Lower body -
17. Lymph nodes -
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 -