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MPAS 635 - Internal Medicine

6.00 credit hours
This six-week clinical course provides physician assistant students with an opportunity to gain supervised experience in providing care to inpatient internal medicine patients. The hospital-based internal medicine rotation will allow  students to further develop their medical knowledge, clinical reasoning, technical and problem-solving skills as they encounter and assess common medical problems in an adult inpatient environment. Students will learn how to communicate and collaborate with members of the inpatient internal medicine health care team, including ordering and interpreting appropriate diagnostic studies, diagnosis, management of common problems, and initiation of consultation in specialist care. Students will participate in the admission, appropriate level of daily care, and discharge planning of the hospitalized adult or elderly patient.

Prerequisite(s): MPAS 503 , MPAS 513 , MPAS 523 , MPAS 535 , MPAS 543 , MPAS 552 , MPAS 562 .


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