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Apr 28, 2024
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PAS 530 - Family Medicine
This applied integration core rotation provides an exposure to the principles and practices of community-oriented family care with an emphasis on disease prevention and health maintenance in adults as well as the opportunity to further techniques in history taking, physical examination, and health behavior counseling. The rotation will provide the PA students with the opportunity to learn how medicine is practiced in the office setting with a culturally diverse patient population of all ages. The students will be exposed to illnesses and problems common to this area of medical practice and learn the indications, limitations, and methodology of primary care procedures and therapeutic strategies utilized in this setting. During this rotation the student is expected to recognize the signs and symptoms of a variety of medical illnesses and become familiar with treatment plans appropriate to family medicine and geriatric populations. This rotation will offer clinical experience in ambulatory practice and/or inpatient and long term care facilities focusing on the knowledge, skills and abilities related to providing medical care for the life span of patients.
5 Credits.
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