Physician Assistant
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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.
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.
Clinical rotation. PA Students only.
This course description is currently under construction.
The purpose of this course is to provide the student with a remote clinical experience designed to teach and reinforce practical clinical skills utilizing Telemedicine as the platform for patient encounters. The course will utilize online history taking techniques, ordering and interpretation of diagnostic studies, and oral presentations to Proctors and Standardized Patients. PA students only. 4 cr. Summer 1
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.
Prerequisites: Successful completion of the PA didactic phase. Students in the clinical phase of the PA program will use this non-clinical elective to develop and hone clinical knowledge and critical thinking as it applies to the practice of medicine. Efficient history taking, effective physical examination skills, and critical thinking to develop differential diagnoses and management plans will be honed using virtual simulations. Students will receive feedback on history taking, physical examination, differential diagnosis, ordering of clinical studies and SOAP notes. Clinical phase PA students only. 4 cr. Fall sem.
PA Students only.
