MSPA 625 - Emergency Medicine Clerkship

4.5 Credit(s)

During this clinical course, second year PA students develop skills necessary to function as a PA in the emergency medicine setting. Students will apply medical knowledge and clinical skills developed during didactic phase of their education. Students will actively engage in assessment, analysis, evidence-based approaches, and management of conditions typically seen in the emergency medicine setting. The student will perform the collection of historical and physical data and develop an understanding of evaluation and treatment of patients with emergent or urgent medical conditions. The rotation will expose students to hands-on technical skills, diagnostic procedures, treatments and technologies that are specific to the emergency medicine specialty addressing patients across the life span. Students will work with the clinical education team and under the supervision of their preceptor(s) to provide care.