Prereq: Enrollment in the Physician Assistant program and successful completion of the didactic portion of the PA curriculum.
This is a four-week clinical course designed to provide physician assistant students with experience evaluating and treating common problems encountered in psychiatry. Experience is provided at the level of a primary care physician assistant, and emphasis is placed on performing a history and physical exam, mental stress exam, selecting and interpreting laboratory exams, establishing a logical differential diagnosis, evaluating evidence based medicine, and establishing a tentative treatment and management plan.
This is a four-week clinical course designed to provide physician assistant students with experience evaluating and treating common problems encountered in psychiatry. Experience is provided at the level of a primary care physician assistant, and emphasis is placed on performing a history and physical exam, mental stress exam, selecting and interpreting laboratory exams, establishing a logical differential diagnosis, evaluating evidence based medicine, and establishing a tentative treatment and management plan.