Shadow Health Digital Clinical Experience: Key Terms Flashcards -
Questions with Correct Answers
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Units 1-2: Communication and Health History
1. Digital Clinical Experience Shadow Health simulation where students interview, examine and
(DCE) document virtual patients.
2. Open-ended question Invites a full answer, e.g., 'Tell me about your breathing.'
3. Empathy statement Acknowledges the patient's feelings.
4. False reassurance Non-therapeutic promise that all will be fine.
5. Chief complaint Reason for the visit in the patient's own words.
Onset, Location, Duration, Character, Aggravating/Alleviating,
6. OLDCARTS
Radiation, Timing, Severity.
7. Review of systems Subjective head-to-toe symptom review.
8. Subjective data What the patient reports.
9. Objective data What the clinician observes or measures.
28-year-old with type 2 diabetes, asthma, right foot wound; allergic to
10. Tina Jones
penicillin and cats.
Units 3-5: Respiratory, Cardiovascular, Abdominal
11. Vesicular breath sounds Soft, low-pitched sounds over peripheral lung fields.
12. Wheeze High-pitched musical sound from narrowed airways (asthma).
13. Crackles Discontinuous popping from fluid in alveoli.
14. Rhonchi Low-pitched sounds from secretions; may clear with cough.
15. Stridor High-pitched inspiratory sound from upper airway obstruction.
16. Tactile fremitus Palpable vibration; increased with consolidation.
17. Barrel chest AP:lateral ratio near 1:1 (COPD).
18. S1 Mitral and tricuspid closure; loudest at apex.
19. S2 Aortic and pulmonic closure; loudest at base.
20. S3 Ventricular gallop; may indicate heart failure.
21. Erb's point 3rd ICS left sternal border.
22. PMI Point of maximal impulse at 5th ICS midclavicular line.
23. Pulse 2+ Normal pulse strength.
24. Abdominal exam order Inspect, auscultate, percuss, palpate.
Questions with Correct Answers
Fold the page down the middle: term on the left, answer on the right
Units 1-2: Communication and Health History
1. Digital Clinical Experience Shadow Health simulation where students interview, examine and
(DCE) document virtual patients.
2. Open-ended question Invites a full answer, e.g., 'Tell me about your breathing.'
3. Empathy statement Acknowledges the patient's feelings.
4. False reassurance Non-therapeutic promise that all will be fine.
5. Chief complaint Reason for the visit in the patient's own words.
Onset, Location, Duration, Character, Aggravating/Alleviating,
6. OLDCARTS
Radiation, Timing, Severity.
7. Review of systems Subjective head-to-toe symptom review.
8. Subjective data What the patient reports.
9. Objective data What the clinician observes or measures.
28-year-old with type 2 diabetes, asthma, right foot wound; allergic to
10. Tina Jones
penicillin and cats.
Units 3-5: Respiratory, Cardiovascular, Abdominal
11. Vesicular breath sounds Soft, low-pitched sounds over peripheral lung fields.
12. Wheeze High-pitched musical sound from narrowed airways (asthma).
13. Crackles Discontinuous popping from fluid in alveoli.
14. Rhonchi Low-pitched sounds from secretions; may clear with cough.
15. Stridor High-pitched inspiratory sound from upper airway obstruction.
16. Tactile fremitus Palpable vibration; increased with consolidation.
17. Barrel chest AP:lateral ratio near 1:1 (COPD).
18. S1 Mitral and tricuspid closure; loudest at apex.
19. S2 Aortic and pulmonic closure; loudest at base.
20. S3 Ventricular gallop; may indicate heart failure.
21. Erb's point 3rd ICS left sternal border.
22. PMI Point of maximal impulse at 5th ICS midclavicular line.
23. Pulse 2+ Normal pulse strength.
24. Abdominal exam order Inspect, auscultate, percuss, palpate.
