Approaches to Teaching Introductory Calculus-based Physics at an University with a Health Sciences and Medical Focus-- Part 1

What is the optimal set of objectives for a course intended for students planning careers in the Health Sciences or Medicine? Is it most useful to touch upon a very broad range of phenomena, focusing particularly on ``advanced material'' which directly relates to the Health Sciences and Medicine? Does it make more sense to ``go deep'' and guide students toward a thorough grasp of basic concepts and principles - and the ability to apply this understanding to solve physics problems? This paper argues strongly on the side of ``depth'' rather than breadth and presents an effective approach for ``going deep'' - even in the presence of exceedingly diverse student preparedness within a single class. Included in this work are 1) some interesting challenge problems which require students to gain ease in multi-step reasoning and which also measure the depth of student grasp of physics foundations; 2) approaches to recognizing information processing obstacles and engineering ways around them.