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Sep 27, 2024
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PAS 720 - Emergency Medicine Clerkship (5 units)
Second-year PA students will advance their knowledge of emergency medicine and enhance their ability to comprehensively recognize and manage a wide range of patients requiring urgent and emergent therapeutic decisions.
Units of Internship/Practicum: 5
Student Learning Outcomes:
Upon completion of this course:
1. Students will be able to develop differential diagnosis when evaluating an undifferentiated patient to: a) prioritize likelihood of diagnoses based on patient presentation, epidemiologic data, and data obtained via history and physical examination; b) further refine differential diagnoses based on results of laboratory, imaging or other diagnostic testing when applicable; c) consider worst-case scenarios and determine the approach to ruling these out or managing appropriately so as to prevent or mitigate major disease processes/events.
2. Students will be able to demonstrate appropriate professional interaction with patients and other healthcare professionals and understand the multidisciplinary team approach and the roles of the various disciplines involved in emergency health services.
3. Students will be able to discuss and evaluate disease entities that may be encountered in an Emergency Medicine setting from a standpoint of presentation, assessment and treatment and recognize the most common emergency medicine conditions.
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