The Unofficial Guide to First Year - University of Oklahoma Health ...

UNOFFICIAL GUIDE
Integrated
Medical
Problem
Solving
SECTION
F
a.k.a.: IMPS
Hours: 24
When It Hits: All Year
Course Director: Dr. Candler
As you can maybe gather from the name, IMPS is the place where all of what you
are currently learning in your classes are integrated into cases and situations that
a doctor might face. Specialists are brought in and discuss with you how you
would best deal with certain scenarios. Three pieces of advice: 1) don’t just skim
over the information, you will need to know the information for the IRAT, 2) think
before you speak or you will end up mumbling some incoherent garbage, and 3)
Don’t be late or you will miss all your IRAT questions.
COURSE LAYOUT
This course will consist of a yearlong series of Team-Based Learning (TBL)
sessions. Several weeks before each IMPS session, all students will be made aware
of the content/topics they must read before the session. Typically, these topics
are selected from lectures in their existing courses. Students should read the preassigned
materials and come prepared to take a quiz. The actual TBL session lasts
two hours and consists of the following phases:
“Recent research has shown that empirical evidence for globalization
of corporate innovation is very limited and as a corollary the market
for technologies is shrinking. As a world leader, it's important for
America to provide systematic research grants for our scientists. I
believe strongly there will always be a need for us to have a well
articulated innovation policy with emphasis on human resource
development. Thank you… ugh… what just happened I blacked out…”
-Will Ferrell, Old School
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