COURSE DESCRIPTION:

This is the second of three Senior Seminar courses where students will critically think and consider healthcare policy and systems issues, medicolegal aspects of clinical practice, reimbursement issues, PA employment issues, patient safety and error reduction measures, and public health issues.

COURSE GOAL:

The goal of the Senior Seminar series is to provide a longitudinal sequenced forum to synthesize diverse issues pertinent to patient care and safety, health policy, health care finance, and medicolegal.


In this 5-week experiential phase, students are assigned into a clinical rotation in a variety of approved clinical settings. The program reserves the right to assign rotations or supplemental activities to ensure that students meet all experiential phase program requirements. There are 7 program required rotations with opportunities for elective rotations. Required clinical rotations are experiences in Family Medicine, Internal Medicine, Emergency Medicine, Surgery, Women’s Health, Pediatrics, and Behavioral Health. The student will have opportunities to explore elective rotation experiences depending upon preceptor availability. The program must ensure that students meet program requirements for the clinical phase, and, as such, reserves the right to assign rotations/supplemental activities to be sure requirements are met.