Women's Health Clinical Course

Catalog description

This five-week required clinical rotation for second-year PA students focuses on the role of the physician assistant in women’s health. Students actively engage in applying the medical knowledge and clinical skills gained during the didactic year, along with continuing to develop clinical reasoning through evidence-based approaches to the evaluation and management of common medical problems and issues encountered in women’s health. A collaborative patient-centered, humanistic approach as well as health promotion, disease prevention, patient education and counseling are incorporated in student encounters with patients. Students gain knowledge, experience and clinical skills needed to effectively recognize, manage and treat common acute, urgent, emergent and chronic diseases and conditions encountered in gynecology, obstetrics and prenatal care. Students also focus on routine women’s and prenatal healthcare maintenance and the changing health needs of women throughout their life span. Supervised clinical practice experiences occur under the supervision of a program-determined preceptor or the preceptor’s designee(s).