Catherine's Asthma

The main learning objectives are to take a focused history and identify risk factors and clinical features that increases probability of asthma diagnosis; to develop a broad differential diagnosis of wheeze / cough. (Not all that wheezes is asthma); to become familiar with management of asthma, different medication delivery methods, and other management options; to be comfortable assessing asthma control in follow-up; and to be aware of inhaled glucocorticoid side effects.

There is more information about our learning objectives and the project's aims here on the Canadian Health Education Commons (CHEC).The EMR's used in our case include MedAccess and Netcare. This case is designed to make the student consider clinical time management in their decision-making. The student is given 15 minutes to make all of their decisions for the initial visit, including history and patient chart review, a physical exam, an initial diagnosis, initial management and patient education.