MPAS 5903 Integrated PA Clinical Medicine 3

9 SCH. This course introduces the most common disorders encountered in primary care relative to Urology/Nephrology, Pediatrics, Gastroenterology, and Emergency Medicine. The course is taught in block format and focuses upon diagnosis, differential diagnosis, and patient management. Students also learn the relevant epidemiology, demographics, pathophysiology, expected history and physical, laboratory and imaging studies, treatments, and monitoring. Important patient education, health promotion, and disease prevention will be included. Learning is facilitated by lectures, labs, case studies, small groups, self-directed study and individual activities. Assessment is conducted using written and lab examinations, independent study and group assignments, and writing assignments.