PAS 669 - INTERNAL MEDICINE CLERKSHIP

College of Health Sciences

Credits: 3

This is an eight-week clinical course designed to provide physician assistant students with experience in evaluating and treating common problems encountered in Internal Medicine. Experience is provided at the level of a primary care physician assistant, and emphasis is placed on performing a history and physical exam, selecting and interpreting laboratory exams, establishing a logical differential diagnosis, evaluating evidence based medicine, performing selected studies, and establishing a tentative treatment and management plan.

Prerequisite(s):
Prereq: Enrollment in the Physician Assistant program and successful completion of the didactic portion of the PA curriculum.
Approved for Distance Learning. Repeatable up to 6 credit hours.