PHA 250 FAMILY MEDICINE CLERKSHIP
3 s.h.
Course Coordinator: Jennifer Duperval, MS, PA-C; Email: Jennifer.P.Duperval@hofstra.edu Office: 516-463-6841 COURSE DESCRIPTION: This is an out-patient clinical experience where students work with family medicine preceptors to evaluate patients with a wide variety of illness in an office setting. Emphasis is placed on evaluation, management, health promotion, and preventive medicine. COURSE GOAL: The goal is to have students develop an approach to the evaluation and management of frequently occurring, complex, comorbid or ill-defined problems with a wide variety of acute and chronic presentations. INSTRUCTIONAL OBJECTIVES AND LEARNING OUTCOMES:
Instructional Objectives Assessment Tools Utilized By the conclusion of the family medicine clerkship, students will be competent in the following:
Evaluation of the acute, chronic and well patient by obtaining an accurate history, performing a physical exam, obtaining and interpreting appropriate laboratory and diagnostic studies and developing a differential diagnosis and/or management plan Determine the initial assessment in acute and chronic patients
Competency for each instructional objective is measured by successful completion of assessment tools listed below: • Preceptor evaluation • Preceptor assessment and sign-off of competency on patient and procedure logs • PAEA end-ofrotation (EOR) examination • Preceptor evaluation
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Learner Outcomes Upon successful completion of this clerkship, students will attain the following knowledge, interpersonal, clinical/technical skills, professional behaviors, clinical reasoning and problemsolving abilities: • •
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Use effective interviewing skills to elicit a detailed history Determine the normal and abnormal in anatomy, physiology, laboratory findings and other diagnostic data and apply the information to recognize normal and abnormal health states Select and interpret appropriate diagnostic tests or lab studies
