Clinical Handbook 2022

assignment completion rather than focus on a formal grade. All students will be required to submit a minimum of five reflective journal entry by call back day eight (8). Journal entries should be 12 pages in length. Students can submit their reflective journal on Exxat. From the dashboard → placements → by session → to do list → session required documents → developmental disability reflective journaling. Failure to submit your reflective journaling will result in an incomplete grade for this clerkship.

CLINICAL ENCOUNTERS Throughout the clinical year, 15 patients with a history of developmental disabilities must be logged in the Exxat system. Clinical encounters should focus on improving clinical management, knowledge, history and physical examination skills and communication/interpersonal skills.

Please be sure you click on the “developmental disability” box to capture your patients in the system. In addition, you must write about each clinical encounter in your reflective journal (as described above). Failure to demonstrate the required number of clinical encounters will affect the student’s ability to graduate.

CALL BACK DAY Students return to campus, Center for Learning and Innovation (CLI) or remotely via zoom on the last day of their clerkship for a day of activities. Call back day activities can include lectures, case presentations, clinical skills workshops, and simulated patient encounters. All callback day activities are mandatory. Activities will vary throughout the year, however every student, except those on their elective rotations will take a Physician Assistant Education Association (PAEA) end of rotation exam. Should an absence be unavoidable, the clinical coordinator must be contacted PRIOR to the date to discuss the legitimacy of the absence. A student leaving an on-site or remote call back day early, without notifying the clinical coordinator will result in a 5-point deduction from the overall clerkship grade. Any unexcused absence from call back day will result in a 10-point deduction from the overall clerkship grade and an incomplete will be submitted for the course until all assignments have been completed successfully.

Call back days involving the Center for Learning and Innovation will include a longitudinal patient care experience on-site or remotely via zoom. All patients are professional standardized patients, hired and trained by CLI to provide our students with a superior patient care experience. After each encounter, students will complete a SOAP note documenting the encounter. The SOAP note must be submitted on Exxat within 72 hours of call back day. Students can submit their SOAP note on Exxat. From the dashboard → placements → by session → to do list → session required documents → longitudinal patient case SOAP note. Please make sure to upload under the correct rotation. In addition, after each “on-site” longitudinal patient care experience, the student will be required to view their encounter remotely (on Hofstra or Northwell network) and complete a video self-reflection form assessing their performance. The video self-reflection is due 2 weeks after the callback day. Students can submit their longitudinal patient reflection on Exxat. From the dashboard → placements → by session → to do list → session required documents → longitudinal patient reflection. Please make sure to upload under your current rotation. There will be no video self-reflection if the longitudinal patient care experience occurs via zoom. If a student misses a patient encounter or does not complete either the SOAP notes or video self-reflection, they will receive two (2) points off their final rotation grade for each assignment not completed.

Additionally, all students are required to fill out a Call Back Day Lecturer Evaluation on Exxat within one week of the call back day for any scheduled lecturers. This evaluation can be found from the dashboard → placements → by session → to do list → eval summary → call back day lecturer evaluation. Failure to do so will result in a three-point deduction from the overall rotation grade.

39