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MPAS 655 - General Surgery

6.00 credit hours
This six-week clinical course provides physical assistant students with an opportunity for supervised experience in General Surgery. The goals of the General Surgery rotation are to provide physician assistant students with the opportunity to build and increase their surgical discipline-specific skills. Physician assistant students will gain experience in the operating room environment, as well as in the pre- and postoperative assessment of adult and elderly patients. Students will learn the clinical reasoning, technical skills and best practices of ordering and interpreting diagnostic studies specific to the conditions commonly treated by general surgeons and surgical specialists—including the complications of surgical management and the development of basic surgical assisting skills. The student will evaluate and care for adult and elderly patients with commonly encountered health conditions requiring surgical management in the outpatient, inpatient and operating room settings and participate as a member of the surgical care team.

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


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