This is a four-week clinical course designed to provide physician assistant students with experience in evaluating and treating surgical problems. Experience is provided at the level of a primary care physician assistant, and emphasis is placed on performing a surgical history and physical exam, assisting in surgery, selecting and interpreting laboratory exams, establishing a logical differential diagnosis, evaluating evidence based medicine, performing selected surgical procedures, including pre-op, intra-op, and post-op management of patients.

This is a four-week clinical course designed to provide physician assistant students with experience in evaluating and treating surgical problems. Experience is provided at the level of a primary care physician assistant, and emphasis is placed on performing a surgical history and physical exam, assisting in surgery, selecting and interpreting laboratory exams, establishing a logical differential diagnosis, evaluating evidence based medicine, performing selected surgical procedures, including pre-op, intra-op, and post-op management of patients.