PAC 5210 - Clinical Medicine l

Hours: 6

Part one of a two-part course covering the essentials of clinical medicine for the physician assistant. An organ systems approach is used to teach etiology, epidemiology, pathophysiology, laboratory evaluation, diagnosis, and treatment of disease. Important topics include evidence-based clinical intervention, health promotion, disease prevention, patient education, and the impact of age, ethnicity, and culture on issues of health and disease. Disease processes covered include dermatology, EENT, cardiology, pulmonology, hematology, and infectious diseases.