Surgery

Catalog description

The General Surgery supervised clinical practice experience (SCPE) is specifically designed as a 5- week clinical rotation providing students with exposure to and training with male and female patients in an inpatient and outpatient surgical treatment settings including but not limited to preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative settings. The clinical rotation focus is on the evaluation, treatment, and management of patients presenting with surgical conditions; students will participate in outpatient and inpatient consultations and pre-operative, intra-operative, and post- operative surgical patient evaluations and procedures. Each student is assigned a clinical site and preceptor at the inception of the clinical year. Prerequisites: Successful completion of the didactic year of the Physician Assistant Studies curriculum. The pre-requisites of MS 504C, 508B, 511, 512, 513 and 514 are all required.