Clinical Year Forms

PHA 290 ELECTIVE CLERKSHIP

Course Coordinator: Jennifer Duperval, MS, PA-C; Email: Jennifer.P.Duperval@hofstra.edu Office: 516-463-6841

COURSE DESCRIPTION

This is a clinical experience that provides students with the opportunity to either explore a medical sub-specialty, surgical sub-specialty or to gain further experience in one of the core disciplines of medicine.

COURSE GOAL

For students to learn to provide high quality and comprehensive medical care to the patients seen on their elective clerkship.

3 s.h.

INSTRUCTIONAL OBJECTIVES AND LEARNING OUTCOMES

Instructional Objectives

By the conclusion of the elective clerkship, students will be competent in the following:

Evaluation of the patient by obtaining an accurate history, performing a focused physical exam, obtaining, and interpreting appropriate laboratory and diagnostic studies and developing a differential diagnosis and management plan

Assessment Tools Utilized

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

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: • 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 • Determine the etiologies, risk factors and epidemiology for various medical and surgical conditions