Patient Assessment I (PHAS505)

(08/31/2020-12/11/2020)

Course Memo

This is the first of a series of courses designed to provide hands-on experience that allows the physician assistant student the opportunity to practice history and physical exam skills and apply clinical decision making skills. Clinical laboratory sessions will be based on an ongoing patient case study. The labs will provide students with the opportunity to perform complete and focused history and physical evaluations, develop differential diagnosis and prepare treatment plans for a patients various illnesses, and expand clinical assessment skills, as based upon disease and conditions taught during PHAS512, Clinical Medicine I. Fall