School of Health Sciences and Human Services Department of Physician Assistant Studies PHA 285 PSYCHIATRY CLERKSHIP
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Clinical Coordinators: Shannan Ricoy, M.S., PA-C & Christine Zammit, M.S., PA-C Email: Shannan.Ricoy@hofstra.edu, Christine.Zammit@hofstra.edu Office: 516-463-4233 COURSE DESCRIPTION: This is a six-week clerkship clinical experience where students work with board certified psychiatrists to evaluate psychiatric diseases. Emphasis is placed on patient care experiences focusing on the diagnosis, treatment and management of patients with psychiatric illness. COURSE GOALS AND OBJECTIVES: The goal is to provide students with a working knowledge of psychiatry and a wide variety of psychiatric diseases. Upon completion of this clerkship students will be able to: 1. Elicit an accurate, detailed medical and psychiatric history relevant to the diagnosis of the presenting problem or to the comprehensive evaluation of the patient. 2. Perform a complete physical and psychiatric assessment. 3. Develop differential diagnoses and treatment plans. 4. Present the patient’s pertinent findings; focusing on relevant positive and negative findings elicited in the history, physical and laboratory/diagnostic studies in both oral and written forms. 5. Perform procedures as specified by the clinical site. 6. Participate in all rounds, conferences, lectures, and call as specified by the site. PROGRAM SPECIFIC LEARNING OBJECTIVES: By the end of this clerkship students must be able to demonstrate competency is the following eight parts: history and physical, diagnostic studies, diagnosis, health maintenance, clinical intervention, clinical therapeutics, and scientific concepts and can be found at the following link: http://www.paeaonline.org/index.php?ht=a/GetDocumentAction/i/140865. The specific topics students are to demonstrate competency in upon completion of this clerkship can be found at the following link: http://www.paeaonline.org/index.php?ht=a/GetDocumentAction/i/140866.The NCCPA blueprints can be found at the following link: http://www.nccpa.net/ExamsContentBlueprint.
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