Unit 1 - What is a Medical Detective?
You will learn how healthcare professionals act as medical detectives in identifying, treating, and preventing injury and illness in their patients. Patient Medical Histories are examined and you will investigate how these histories guide medical detectives to the correct diagnosis and treatment of a particular illness. You will also investigate and collect vital signs such as heart rate, blood pressure, and temperature. Finally, you will research pathogens involved in food borne illnesses and act as medical detectives in diagnosing and proposing a treatment plan for a patient with a mystery illness.
Essential Questions - Unit 1
By the end of this project you should be able to answer the following questions:
1. What clues do medical detectives use to learn about a patient’s health?
2. How can vital signs signal a decline in a patient’s health?
3. What factors affect your ability to maintain homeostasis?
4. How can epidemics be prevented?
5. How is a mystery illness diagnosed?
6. What is a medical detective?
7. What is biomedical science?
1. What clues do medical detectives use to learn about a patient’s health?
2. How can vital signs signal a decline in a patient’s health?
3. What factors affect your ability to maintain homeostasis?
4. How can epidemics be prevented?
5. How is a mystery illness diagnosed?
6. What is a medical detective?
7. What is biomedical science?
Knowledge and Skills
In this unit you will:
- Measure vital signs including heart rate, blood pressure, and temperature.
- Demonstrate the use of technology as an important tool in the Biomedical Sciences.
- Explain the different ways a virus spreads through a population.
- Describe the spread of a viral illness after inoculation is introduced.
- Evaluate patient case files to diagnose the pathogen responsible for the patient’s mystery illness.
- Describe the steps that a medical professional will take to diagnose and treat a patient.
- Provide examples of how medical professionals contribute to the health and wellness of individuals.