Pediatrics

Catalog description

The Pediatric clerkship is specifically designed as a 5-week clinical rotation providing students with exposure to and training with pediatric and adolescent patients in an inpatient/outpatient pediatric practice. The clerkship focus is on epidemiology, pathophysiology, clinical presentation, interviewing and physical examination, laboratory, imaging, and procedural evaluation, medical education, counseling, preventive care, and the treatment and management of pediatric patients. In this clerkship students have the opportunity to develop skills necessary for appropriate triage, stabilization, evaluation, treatment, and management of pediatric and adolescent patients in a pediatric medicine practice setting. 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.