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Apr 29, 2024
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PAS 501 - Professional Practice-I Professional Issues, Health Policy and the Pa Role in Modern Health Care
This course provides a basis for the future physician assistant to use as grounding and ongoing reference for professional issues and medical practice including professional responsibility, the impact of socioeconomic issues affecting health care, health care delivery systems and health policy; cultural issues related to health care and their impact on health care policy. This course will also present the history, development and current status of the Physician Assistant profession within the context of the system of health care in the USA and other global countries. The student will explore the role of the PA in the current health care delivery system as well as develop an understanding of the “health care team”. The student will acquire a base of knowledge about the organizations that make up the PA profession, the process of certification and educational accreditation. An emphasis will be placed on the various local, national and global roles of PAs both past and present.
2 Credits.
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