Pediatric Clerkship

Instructor:
Joshua Marion Burkhart
661
Credits:
3.0
201
Building:
TBD
Room:
TBD
Semester:
Fall 2022
Start Date:
End Date:
Name:
Pediatric Clerkship
Requisites:

Prereq: Enrollment in the Physician Assistant program and successful completion of the didactic portion of the PA curriculum.

Class Type:
CLI
TBD
TBD
Days:
TBD

This is a four-week clinical course designed to provide physician assistant students with experience in evaluation and treating common problems encountered in pediatrics. Experience is provided at the level of a primary care physician assistant, and emphasis is placed on performing a pediatric history and physical exam, selecting and interpreting laboratory exams, establishing a logical differential diagnosis, evaluating evidence based medicine, performing selected procedures, and establishing a tentative treatment and management plan.

This is a four-week clinical course designed to provide physician assistant students with experience in evaluation and treating common problems encountered in pediatrics. Experience is provided at the level of a primary care physician assistant, and emphasis is placed on performing a pediatric history and physical exam, selecting and interpreting laboratory exams, establishing a logical differential diagnosis, evaluating evidence based medicine, performing selected procedures, and establishing a tentative treatment and management plan.

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