Useful Acronyms for Facilitators and Students

 

Some acronyms you may want to share with your group – analogies and acronyms are powerful learning tools because of the way our brain works (see Brain Based Pedagogy at our FD website http://www.oucom.ohiou.edu/fd/Brain%20Seminar%20Handout1.pdf).  

 

Acronym                                              Description

 

ROPES                      For aspects of group dynamics:

                                 Risk, Openness, Participation, Experience, Sensitivity.

 

SPERO                      For facilitating group discussions:

                                 Sensitivity, Participation, Experience, Risk, Openness

 

HOPI                         For taking a patient history of the present illness:

                                 History Of Present Illness. 

 

COD2IERS                  For inquiries on present illness:

                                 Chronology, Onset, Description/Duration, Intensity, Exacerbation, Remission, Social/psychological.

 

PMH                          For inquiries on past medical history:

                                 Past Medical History

 

MMASH                     For inquiries on specific PMH.

                                 Medical Illnesses, Medications, Allergies, Surgeries, Hospitalizations

 

P2QRSTU                   For information on complaints associated with pain:

                                 Provoke/Palliate, Quality, Region/radiation, Severity, Temporal properties, Unusual Correlates

 

"VINDICATE+P"          For identifying causal categories across body systems:

                                 Vascular, Inflammatory/infectious, Neoplastic, Degenerative, Intoxication/toxic, Congenital, Allergic/autoimmune,

                                 Traumatic, Endocrine/metabolic, and Psychosomatic

 

Source: Student Handbook (pp. 13, 17-18, 20, 29-31) by J. Curry, 1991, College of Medicine, The Ohio State University.