This course gives students foundational approaches to three patient populations: geriatric patients, oncology patients, and patients receiving palliative care. During the course, students learn how these patient populations overlap, and learn about appropriate approaches to common presentations. In all three disciplines, students learn that physicians are not dealing with a single organ system, but rather with the patient as a whole. The focus is on approaches to clinical presentations, a skill that can be applied to other clinical presentations later in the curriculum.