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Nov 23, 2024
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ARCHIVED 2022-2023 Graduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
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MPAS 630 - Emergency Medicine 6.00 credit hours
This six-week clinical course provides physician assistant students with experience in triage, evaluation, and management of patients aged from children to elderly in the emergency room setting. The Emergency Medicine rotation will provide physician assistant students with supervised clinical practice experiences in the emergent evaluation and management of patients with significant traumatic injuries, acute illnesses, and the exacerbation’s of chronic illnesses, as well as less urgent disease presentations. Students will improve their medical knowledge and clinical reasoning skills required for emergent and urgent triage and the technical skills required for the stabilization of patients presenting to the emergency department with commonly encountered medical problems and injuries. Students will increase their understanding on how to collaborate with members of the health care team, the ordering and interpreting appropriate diagnostic studies, diagnosis, management and obtaining appropriate consultation of specialist care for patients seeking emergency care.
Prerequisite(s): MPAS 503 , MPAS 513 , MPAS 523 , MPAS 535 , MPAS 543 , MPAS 552 , MPAS 562 .
Click here for the schedule of classes.
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