Clinical Exposure and Transition

Catalog description

This course incorporates experiential learning to prepare students for clerkships and clinical practice through facilitation and transition of medical application and skills from the academic phase of the curriculum to the clinical phase. Students are provided the opportunity to foster and refine communication skills, interprofessional responsibilities, and appropriate patient care strategies. Students will be placed in various clinical exposures throughout the semester to learn and evaluate professional behavior and patient care transition. Additionally, students will participate in a series of traditional classroom-based instruction that promotes active learning of clinical year preparation and expectations of the physician assistant student role and performance. Successfully passed all courses in the first and second semesters of Didactic year, and be in good standing in the Physician Assistant program.