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We weren't. We were told that we would be doing some physical exam stuff, but they never elaborated on it throughout the year. They scheduled us a session with one of the simulated patients toward the end of the year, but it was not graded (and many say that it was actually optional).
There was an optional workshop in which we could practice with a clinician at fammed, and many say that it was helpful.
I can't be sure what they are up to with PE's in MS 1, especially when they haven't seem to have made any changes to MS 2. This is one area in which they want to be progressive with the curriculum, but there is also a fear in altering our overall grading scheme.
From what I understand, we have to be able to do a full "screening" exam and will be graded on it at the end of next semester.
So this is new for this year then. That would explain the apparent disorder during our PCM times. 1/2 of the group works on interviewing an SP and the other 1/2 goes to the new clinical skills center in the old children's hospital to practice on another SP (maybe you MS2s also did this last year too, sans the new clinical skills center).
So far we have already covered HEENT, pulmonary, cardiac, vascular, and abdomen exams.