Supervised Clinical Practice 4

Catalog description

This course series is designed to provide students with an exposure and experiences in a specific clinical setting. The goal is for students to gain exposure to the approach to patients in a wide variety of clinical settings. The clinical year supervised clinical practice encounters (SCPE) are designed to expose professional phase PA students to a variety of patients across the lifespan (infant, children, adolescent, adult, elderly) in a variety of levels of care (emergent, acute, chronic, preventive). There are nine required SCPEs that are a part of this course series (family medicine, internal medicine, pediatrics, women's health, community mental health, emergency medicine, general surgery and an elective). With the guidance of the clinical preceptor, students will perform history and physical exams, obtain diagnostic testing and develop differential diagnosis/treatment plans. Students will learn to communicate effectively with medical providers, preceptor, patients and family members. Student may perform procedures at the discretion of the preceptor.