Surgery Supervised Clinical Practice Experience

Catalog description

This core clinical rotation provides students with exposure to the principles and practice of surgery. This supervised clinical practice experience (SCPE) enables students to assess patients seeking medical care across the lifespan with an emphasis on caring for adults and geriatric patients with surgically manageable diseases and conditions. Students will gain exposure to pre-operative evaluation and preparation of patients for surgery, assisting during the intra-operative period and post-operative care of the surgical patient. This clinical rotation will enable the student to provide care as an entry-level physician assistant upon graduation. Prerequisite Course(s): Registration is limited to students matriculated in the MS Physician Assistant Studies program who have successfully completed the Didactic phase and have completed 55 credits.