2024-2025 Catalog and Student Handbook

PASP 516 Professional & Psychosocial Issues

This first course in a two-course series provides an introduction to the PA profession including but not limited to content related to interpersonal and communication skills, professionalism, historical development and current trends, ethical issues related to health care and health policy, epidemiology principals as it relates to the science of public health, social, behavioral and cultural factors in health, cultural diversity, health care delivery systems, health care financing and reimbursement, federal agencies and policies, health care economics, system based practice, health information technology, school life balance, professional organizations, patient centered medical home, interprofessional and shared decision making, and optimal team practice. The content will be disseminated through lecture, independent reading, classroom discussion, audiovisual presentations, and group projects.

Credits

2

Prerequisite

Open only to students admitted into the Physician Assistant Studies program.