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The Introduction to Research course prepares the PA student to search and interpret medical literature as it relates to best practices for clinical care, epidemiology, and disease surveillance. In addition, the course prepares the students to develop their thesis project. This course utilizes lectures, journal clubs and online learning as means of instruction.
The Introduction to Clinical Medicine course prepares the PA student to utilize the patient-centered interview and physical examination to assess pediatric, adult and geriatric patients. This course uses lectures, interview role play sessions and physical examination practica.
The SCORE 1 course introduces students to professional concentrations/foci which they will likely encounter in their clinical practice. These concentrations/foci can challenge the clinician's ability to provide care and represent a key facet of the BU Physician Assistant Program mission. Through lectures and readings, the students will be exposed to seven different concentrations to include:
a. Addiction Medicine
b. Psychiatric Medicine
c. LGBTQ+
d. Refugee/Undeclared Immigrant/DACA
e. Veteran Medicine
f. Familial Abuse/Human Trafficking
g. Homelessness
The SCORE 2 course introduces students to professional concentrations/foci which they will likely encounter in their clinical practice. These concentrations/foci can challenge the clinician’s ability to provide care and represent a key facet of the BU Physician Assistant Program mission. Through lectures and readings, the students will be exposed to six different concentrations to include:
a. Rural Medicine
b. IPE
c. Racism in the Practice of Medicine
d. Patients with Disabilities
e. Religion and Medicine
f. Elderly
During SCORE 3, students will be divided into groups to focus on a project reflecting the concentration of their previous choice from SCORE 1 and 2. This project can be a proposed QI or advocacy project. The refinement of the project will be facilitated by clinical experiences relating to their concentration. These sessions will provide real-time exposure to their focus.
The PISCE 1 course consists of Health Equity curriculum which will focus on the knowledge and skills related to health equity including poverty, social determinants of health, health equity, racism in medicine, behavioral medicine and population health. These skills are important in the care of all patients, especially those from vulnerable populations and will help students recognize the impact of these issues on both individual and population health. The modules of the PISCE 1 course include Foundations 1 & 2 which will focus on the foundational basic science knowledge to prepare the students for the study of clinical medicine. The curriculum, material and instruction in the PISCE 1 course will provide a medical focus in the foundational sciences which will prepare students for the PISCE 2-7 courses. The final week of the PISCE 1 course will be an Integration Week. During that week, the PA and MD students will work together on integrated cases to revisit and connect the material they have learned across the PISCE 1 course.
The modules of the PISCE 2 course include Foundations 3, Genomic Medicine and Cardiovascular. Foundations 3 will build on the material already studied in PISCE 1 in Foundations 1 & 2, focusing on the foundational basic science knowledge to prepare the students for the study of clinical medicine. Genomic Medicine incorporated the study of genetics, pathology as well as the management and treatment of genetic disease. The Cardiovascular module will be the first systems-based module which will incorporate pathology, anatomy, physiology, microbiology, pharmacology and pathophysiology of the cardiovascular system. The curriculum, material, and instruction in the PISCE 3 course will provide foundational science, genomic medicine and the cardiovascular system and which will prepare students for the PISCE 3-7 courses. The final week of the PISCE 2 course will be an Integration Week. During that week, the PA and MD students will work together on integrated cases to revisit and connect the material they have learned across the PISCE 2 course.
The modules of the PISCE 3 course include the Pulmonary and Renal body systems. These modules will build on the material already studied in the PISCE 1 & 2 courses focusing on the integration of foundational basic science knowledge and clinical medicine and will prepare the students for the PISCE 4-7 courses. The Pulmonary and Renal modules will be body systems-based modules which will incorporate pathology, anatomy, physiology, microbiology, pharmacology and pathophysiology of each system. The final week of the PISCE 3 course will be an Integration Week. During that week, the PA and MD students will work together on integrated cases to revisit and connect the material they have learned across the PISCE 3 course.
The PISCE 4 course will build on concepts offered in the PISCE 1, 2 & 3 courses and continues to build on basic science knowledge as it integrates into clinical medicine. The Endocrinology, Reproduction and Hematology modules are body systems module which combine the basic sciences of anatomy, physiology and histology with pathology, pathophysiology, pharmacology and clinical medicine. Together with the PISCE 1 - 3 courses, the PISCE 4 course prepares students for the rest of the PISCE courses 5- 7 and for the practice of medicine.
The PISCE 5 course consists of Health Equity curriculum which will focus on the knowledge and skills related to health equity including poverty, social determinants of health, health equity, racism in medicine, behavioral medicine and populations health. The modules of the PISCE 5 course include the Neurology, Psychiatry and Behavioral Health. These modules will build on the material already studied in the PISCE 1-4 courses focusing on the integration of foundational basic science knowledge and clinical medicine and will prepare the students for the PISCE 6 & 7 courses. The Neurology, Psychiatry and Behavioral Health modules will incorporate pathology, anatomy, physiology, microbiology, pharmacology and pathophysiology of each system. The final week of the PISCE 5 course will be an Integration Week. During that week, the PA and MD students will work together on integrated cases to revisit and connect the material they have learned across the PISCE 5 course.
The modules of the PISCE 6 course include the Gastroenterology, Nutrition, Dermatology, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal systems. These modules will build on the material already studied in the PISCE 1-5 courses focusing on the integration of foundational basic science knowledge and clinical medicine and will prepare the students for the PISCE 7 course. The Gastroenterology, Nutrition, Dermatology, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal modules will incorporate pathology, anatomy, physiology, microbiology, pharmacology and pathophysiology of each system. The final week of the PISCE 6 course will be an Integration Week. During that week, the PA and MD students will work together on integrated cases to revisit and connect the material they have learned across the PISCE 6 course.
This course prepares the PA student to synthesize their basic science and clinical medicine knowledge to approach a patient. The PA student will also learn to create a portion of the medical record. The course utilizes traditional lectures, clinical reasoning sessions, journal clubs and hospital sessions for instruction.
This course prepares the PA student to synthesize their basic science and clinical medicine knowledge to approach a patient and builds on what they have learned in ICM and CP I. The PA student will also learn to create the entire medical record and develop their oral presentation skills. The course utilizes traditional lectures, clinical reasoning sessions, journal clubs and hospital sessions for instruction.
The Advanced Clinical Medicine 2 course address several specific areas of need for PA students that are not presented in the Principles Integrating Science, Clinical Medicine and Equity (PISCE) 1-7 courses including specific populations of patients, clinical procedures and preparatory skills needed for clinical rotations. Students will learn about the epidemiology, disease pattern differences, and therapeutic considerations of a variety of conditions previously studied in PISCE 1-7 courses. Clinical procedures related to the practice of medicine will be taught and practiced using simulation. This course will continue to develop the clinical reasoning skills of the PA student that was first introduced in the Clinical Practicum course. These topics prepare students for clinical rotations to care for patients across the life span and to participate in the care of patients in the clinical year.
Clinical rotation. PA Students only.
Clinical rotation. PA Students only.
Clinical rotation. PA Students only.
Clinical rotation. PA Students only.
Clinical rotation. PA Students only.
Clinical rotation. PA Students only.
