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Nov 24, 2024
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Catalog 2023-24 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
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MSPA 531 - Clinical Skills I
This is the first of three Clinical Skills courses presented during the didactic year. This series is designed to develop the clinical skills necessary for practice as a physician assistant in primary care. This course will present general principles of history taking as well as examination of the head, neck, and thorax. The focus of this course is to introduce the procedural skills required in physician assistant practice. Topics will be presented and assessed in multiple formats using Standardized Patients (SPs), Objective Structured Clinical Examinations (OSCEs), and clinical simulations. Topics included in this course are closely aligned with the Clinical Medicine, Advanced Clinical Anatomy & Physiology, Patient Evaluation and Education and Clinical Pharmacology & Pharmacotherapeutics series.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): [(Prereq: MSPA Program students) AND (Coreq: MSPA 511 AND MSPA 521 AND MSPA 541 AND MSPA 551 AND MSPA 561 AND MSPA 571 AND MSPA 581 )]
Typically Offered: Spring term only
Units: 2
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