Students in the clinical phase of the Physician Assistant program will utilize this non-clinical elective course as a primer for understanding the practice of Public Health on a population and its influence on the practice of medicine. Critical analysis and application of quantitative and qualitative data and how they relate to Epidemiology, Biostatistics, Environmental Health, Health Policy and Program Development, Basic Healthcare Management and Finance, Chronic Non-communicable and Infectious Diseases, Maternal and Child Health, Population Dynamics, and the Social Determinants of Health with selected instruction on Public Health Surveillance Systems, Public Health Aspects of Sex and Gender, the Politics of Consumables and the Public Health of Immigrant/Refugee/Displaced Populations. Students will participate in case-based instruction, live and pre-recorded lectures culminating in a group project which will utilize many of the concepts and techniques learned throughout the course as applied to a Public Health issue. Clinical Phase PA students only. 4 cr. Spring sem.

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