Course Number and Title: PA 7100 Emergency Medicine Rotation
Course Credits: 5
Course Description: This supervised clinical practice experience (SCPE) provides students with an opportunity to actively engage in applying the knowledge and skills gained during the didactic phase of their education to evaluate and treat patients who may present with acute, urgent, or emergent complaints in an emergency medicine setting.
Course Number and Title: PA 7200 Surgical Medicine Rotation
Course Credits: 5
Course Description: This supervised clinical practice experience (SCPE) provides students with an opportunity to actively engage in applying the knowledge and skills gained during the didactic phase of their education to evaluate and treat pre-operative, intra-operative, and post-operative patients in a surgical setting. This experience will foster the student’s ability to differentiate between surgical (including acute versus elective) versus nonsurgical presentations.
Course Number and Title: PA 7300 Internal Medicine Rotation
Course Credits: 5
Course Description: This supervised clinical practice experience (SCPE) provides students with an opportunity to actively engage in applying the knowledge and skills gained during the didactic phase of their education to evaluate and treat patients in a hospital-based, inpatient setting. Students will hone critical thinking and clinical reasoning skills through evidence-based approaches to the evaluation and management of internal medicine patients who may present with acute, chronic, emergent, and/or life-threatening conditions.
Course Number and Title: PA 7400 Behavioral Medicine Rotation
Course Credits: 5
Course Description: This supervised clinical practice experience (SCPE) provides students with an opportunity to actively engage in applying the knowledge and skills gained during the didactic phase of their education to evaluate and treat patients in behavioral and mental health settings. In honing knowledge of behavioral and mental health, students will develop clinical reasoning and critical thinking to differentiate behavioral health needs and appropriate levels of care.
Course Number and Title: PA 7500 Family Medicine Rotation
Course Credits: 5
Course Description: This supervised clinical practice experience (SCPE) provides students with an opportunity to actively engage in applying the knowledge and skills gained during the didactic phase of their education to evaluate and treat patients while emphasizing patient-centered care. This rotation may include exposure to the team practice concept of healthcare via the integration of community services, preventative medicine, patient education, and medical diagnosis and treatment of both acute and chronic conditions for patients.
Course Number and Title: PA 7600 Women’s Health Rotation
Course Credits: 5
Course Description: This supervised clinical practice experience (SCPE) provides students with an opportunity to actively engage in applying the knowledge and skills gained during the didactic phase of their education to evaluate and treat patients in women’s health including common gynecologic conditions, family planning and prenatal care. This may include managing normal pregnancy versus acute, urgent, or emergent pregnancy-related problems as well as post-partum care.
Course Number and Title: PA 7700 Pediatric Medicine Rotation
Course Credits: 5
Course Description: This supervised clinical practice experience (SCPE) provides students with an opportunity to actively engage in applying the knowledge and skills gained during the didactic phase of their education to evaluate and treat patients in pediatric medicine. Pediatric medicine experiences include well visits that allow students to hone interpersonal skills with birth through adolescent-aged patients and their families or caregivers. Pediatric medicine experiences emphasize preventive pediatric health care as well as common childhood illnesses and psychosocial concerns.
Course Number and Title: PA 7800 Elective Rotation
Course Credits: 5
Course Description: Provides PA students in the clinical phase of the PA program experiential learning in one of the core discipline rotations or an elective specialty. This rotation will be coordinated with the program to ensure it meets program goals and continues to cultivate the knowledge and skills to achieve program learning outcomes. Students will work under the supervision of a Program-determined licensed healthcare professional and/or their designee(s). Each PA student must successfully complete one elective clinical rotation prior to graduation.