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Apr 23, 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.
Grading Basis: Graded
Units of Internship/Practicum: 5
Student Learning Outcomes
Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
1. assess patients from across the lifespan presenting to the emergency setting with a variety of diseases, conditions and/or injuries commonly encountered in the urgent care/emergency department.
2. develop an immediate differential diagnosis when evaluating an undifferentiated patient in the emergency room setting to: a) prioritize likelihood of diagnoses based on patient presentation, epidemiologic data, and data obtained via history and physical examination; b) further refine diagnosis and treatment based on results of laboratory, imaging or other diagnostic testing when applicable; c) identify and 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.
3. demonstrate appropriate communication and professional interaction with patients, families and other healthcare professionals.
4. discuss the interprofessional team approach and the roles of the various disciplines involved in providing emergency health services.
5. 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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