Professional Development Seminar III

Catalog description

This third level clinical semester specific course will allow the student to begin to master skills of continuing medical education and professional growth. This course creates platforms for mastery of key concepts in clinician knowledge and professionalism by creating more collaborative and inclusive roles in the leadership development and continued medical education. The student displays clinical expertise through individual presentations and peer mentorship and clinical discourse through group journal club. Discussions include regulations governing practice in the state and national levels, board preparation, licensing, and resume building as students near employment eligibility. The course will continue to explore time management, and strategies to reduce long term decline (i.e. burn out); building on Profession Development Seminars I, II emphasizing the patient-centered medical home, cost effectiveness and access to care across a broad patient population. Prerequisite: Acceptance to the Physician Associate Program. Co-requisites: PAS 695 , PAS 673 , PAS 688 , PAS 692 .