PASP 658 Clinical Rotation Elective
This eight-week course provides the physician assistant student exposure to a medical specialty of their choice. The scheduled eight weeks are divided into two four-week rotations. This rotation will allow the PA student to demonstrate and apply knowledge, clinical and technical skills, and core competencies in the discipline of their choosing. The student will provide acute, comprehensive, and continuing health care to a culturally diverse patient population regardless of the nature or presentation of the problems encountered. This will incorporate medical, psychosocial, and preventive aspects. The student should be able to recognize the clinical presentation, diagnosis and treatment modalities of those illnesses most commonly seen based on the discipline of their choosing. This rotation will provide the student with access to patients in the outpatient and/or inpatient setting and may also include evaluating patients pre or post operatively in an inpatient and/or outpatient setting focusing on the knowledge, skills, and abilities related to providing medical care as a member of the health care team. Testing and evaluations for this rotation will be based on knowledge, clinical and technical skills, core competencies, related to clinical year training.