IUPUI Campus Bulletin 2014-2016

This course prepares the Physician Assistant student to apply the principles of health promotion and disease prevention across the patient lifecycle in clinical and/or community setting.

This course will focus on knowledge and clinical skills to assess and treat psychiatric and psychosocial conditions encountered during clinical rotations and clinical practice. The skills to examine patients’ symptoms and behaviors related to emotional disorders, difficult patient and family interactions will be addressed.

The knowledge, skills, and approaches required to effectively provide care for patients with behavioral change needs which are encountered in everyday practice will also be addressed. Additionally, interpersonal and communication skills, professionalism competencies, and cultural and patient context topics will be components of the course.

This course prepares the Physician Assistant student to perform basic interviewing and history-taking skills. Students will explore the components of the complete physical examination, special testing, and documentation.

This course is a continuation of Patient Evaluation I in which students continue to explore the components of the complete physical examination, special testing, and documentation. They will be challenged to refine history taking and written documentation skills, further cultivate critical thinking, and begin to develop oral presentation skills.

This course will explore U.S. health care systems and policies.  Discussion will focus on policy formation; influencers on policy making (stakeholders and data); health care system operations; the impact policies have on U.S. health care outcomes; and the interaction of national, state, and local policies. 

Introduction to the use of evidence based literature to inform clinical decision making.

The purpose of this course is to provide physician assistant students with a knowledge base of human physiology and pathology as a foundation for their clinical practice. This is the first course in a two-semester sequence of courses.

The purpose of this course is to provide physician assistant students with a knowledge base of human physiology and pathology as a foundation for their clinical practice. This is the first course in a two-semester sequence of courses.

The purpose of this course is to provide physician assistant students with a fundamental knowledge of human physiology and pathology as a foundation for clinical practice. This is the second course in a two course sequence.

K681 is the 4-week Family Medicine Clinical Rotation requirement of the experiential year. This clinical rotation is designed to provide students with a clinical opportunity in Family Medicine under the direct supervision of a qualified preceptor. This rotation introduces students to diverse preventive, emergent, acute, and chronic patient encounters, their complications and impact on patients across the life span.

K682 is the 4-week Outpatient Clinical Rotation requirement of the experiential year. This clinical rotation is designed to provide students with a clinical opportunity in a variety of outpatient medicine opportunities under the direct supervision of a qualified preceptor. This rotation introduces students to diverse preventive, emergent, acute, and chronic patient encounters, their complications, multiple co-morbidities and impact on patients across the life span.

K683 is the 4-week Women’s Health Clinical Rotation requirement of the experiential year.  This clinical rotation is designed to provide students with a clinical opportunity in Women’s Health under the direct supervision of a qualified preceptor. This rotation introduces students to diverse preventive, emergent, acute, and chronic patient encounters, their complications and impact on patients across the life span.

K684 is the 4-week Pediatric Clinical Rotation requirement of the experiential year.  This clinical rotation is designed to provide students with a clinical opportunity in Pediatric Medicine under the direct supervision of a qualified preceptor. This rotation introduces students to diverse preventive, emergent, acute, and chronic patient encounters, their complications and impact on patients in the pediatric population.

K685 is the 4-week Surgical Clinical Rotation requirement of the experiential year. This clinical rotation is designed to provide students with a clinical opportunity in general surgery under the direct supervision of a qualified preceptor. This rotation introduces students to diverse pre-operative, intra-operative and post-operative conditions, their complications and impact on patients across the life span.

K686 is the 4-week Psychiatric Clinical Rotation requirement of the experiential year. This clinical rotation is designed to provide students with a clinical opportunity in psychiatry under the direct supervision of a qualified preceptor. This rotation introduces students to acute and chronic mental health conditions, their complications and impact on patients across the life span.

K687 is the 4-week Community Medicine Clinical Rotation requirement of the experiential year. This clinical rotation was created and designed to provide students with a unique opportunity within a Community Medicine Health Center, to maximize the physician/physician assistant collaboration model, to further develop awareness of and coordination with all health team members, and to experience and participate the concept of a patient centered medical home. This rotation introduces students to diverse preventive, emergent, acute, and chronic patient encounters, their complications and impact on patients across the life span, within the underserved population.

K688 is the 4-week Internal Medicine Clinical Rotation requirement of the experiential year.  This clinical rotation is designed to provide students with a clinical opportunity in inpatient medicine, under the direct supervision of a qualified preceptor. This rotation introduces students to diverse preventive, emergent, acute, and chronic patient encounters, their complications and impact on primarily adult and geriatric patients.

K689 is the 4-week Emergency Medicine Clinical Rotation requirement of the experiential year. This clinical rotation is designed to provide students with a clinical opportunity in Emergency Medicine under the direct supervision of a qualified preceptor. This rotation introduces students to diverse preventive, emergent, acute, and chronic patient encounters, their complications and impact on patients across the life span.

 K690 is the 4-week Selective Clinical Rotation requirement of the experiential year. This clinical rotation is designed to provide students with a clinical opportunity in any area of specialty medicine or surgery of their choosing, under the direct supervision of a qualified preceptor. This rotation introduces students to diverse emergent, acute, and chronic patient encounters, their complications and impact on primarily adult and geriatric patients.

K691 is the 3-week Elective Clinical Rotation that allows the student to choose to pursue an area of medicine beyond that of the core rotations. The rotation exists to encourage expansion of opportunities to practice medicine in an area of interest that is available within the United States or abroad. This rotation serves to deepen the student’s commitment and understanding of preventive, emergent, acute, and chronic treatment of patients, and their complications.

 K692 is the 2 or 4-week Elective Clinical Rotation that allows the student to choose to pursue an area of medical beyond that of the 9 core required rotations. The rotation exists to encourage expansion of opportunities to practice medicine in an area of interest that is available within the United States or abroad. This rotation serves to deepen their commitment and understanding of preventive, emergent, acute, and chronic treatment of patients, and their complications.

The rotation offers students an opportunity to create a clinical rotation unique to their interests and which fosters a deepening appreciation for the environment of global health, and the diverse ethnic, cultural and economic environments in which medicine is practiced.

Students self-select in order to participate in an international rotation overseas, as long as they practice under the direct supervision of a qualified preceptor.

This course allows Physician Assistant students to complete a clinically relevant research project under his or her faculty advisor’s supervision. Students will identify a clinically oriented question and use the principles of evidence-based critical inquiry to address the question.

This course allows Physician Assistant students to present their Master’s degree project. Students will present their topic to their peers and faculty, using appropriate audiovisual equipment and handouts.  

This course is a continuation of some theory introduced in K500, with emphasis placed on preparing the clinical PA for the PANCE and employment. Students will integrate concepts and knowledge gained from didactic instruction and clinical rotations with emphasis placed on preparation for entering clinical practice.

Students will be introduced to past, current and emerging health care delivery systems and methods of health care reimbursement. Also explored are issues confronting practicing professionals such as risk management/malpractice, quality improvement, billing and coding, certification, preparation for the PANCE exam, employment search, CV preparation and professional liability. A Packrat II formative exam and Summative final exam are also a component of this course.

This online course provides students with the opportunity to perform a needs assessment within a clinical rotation(s) and assume the leadership role necessary for its proposed implementation.

Upon graduation, each PA is required to earn PI-CME (performance improvement continuing medical education credits), in order to maintain PANCE certification. This Quality Improvement Project is designed to introduce each of you to the concept of this additionally mandated competency measure, and is designed to be initiated during one of your clinical rotations. This Quality Improvement Project has been modified utilizing the principals of a PI-CME format, to allow you create a proposed project outline, without requiring you to collect/ generate data.

Additionally, each student will complete online readings and reflective self-assessments, designed to identify their leadership qualities. Students will be required to write a 3 stage proposal, identifying a need, demonstrating problem solving techniques, and defining steps for success.

Applying evidence based critical inquiries into clinical practices