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Physician Assistant Studies
  • ANAT-D 528 Gross Anatomy for Healthcare Professionals (5 cr.) This is an introductory course in human gross anatomy designed to introduce the principal concepts, basic structure, and function of the human body. Students will have the opportunity to learn, through dissection and demonstration of human cadaveric specimens, clinical and functional correlates of human anatomy.
  • MPAS-M 500 Introduction to the PA Profession (3 cr.) This course is primarily lecture style with some guest speakers and group project work. It provides students with an understanding of the history and development of the Physician Assistant (PA) profession and the PA’s role in the health care system. Also explored are issues confronting practicing professionals such as regulations governing practice, credentialing, licensure, malpractice insurance, physician supervision, delegation and prescribing, providing culturally sensitive care, and ethics.
  • MPAS-M 501 Clinical Medicine for PA I (9 cr.) The first in a series of three, this course provides Physician Assistant students with the knowledge of a variety of general medical problems encountered in clinical practice. Students learn to evaluate and manage common problems while utilizing and amplifying critical thinking skills and knowledge learned in basic science courses.
  • MPAS-M 502 Clinical Medicine for PA II (15 cr.) The second in a series of three, this course provides Physician Assistant students with the knowledge of a variety of general medical problems encountered in clinical practice. Students learn to evaluate and manage common problems while utilizing and amplifying critical thinking skills and knowledge learned in basic science courses.
  • MPAS-M 503 Clinical Medicine for PA III (10 cr.) The third in a series of three, this course provides Physician Assistant students with the knowledge of a variety of general medical problems encountered in clinical practice. Students learn to evaluate and manage common problems while utilizing and amplifying critical thinking skills and knowledge learned in basic science courses.
  • MPAS-M 504 Clinical Therapeutics (3 cr.) This course is designed to build on students’ knowledge of the general principles of clinical medicine and pharmacology. Lectures will teach how these principles are used to make rational clinical prescribing decisions. Small groups will be formed, and students will be asked to write and oral present assessments and plans over chief complaint topics. Topics covered will include pharmacology, routes of administration, pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, pharmacogenomics, and toxicology, drug classes, disease management, and drug safety and regulation.
  • MPAS-M 505 Psychosocial Aspects of Health Care (2 cr.) This course is part of a two-course series on health promotion and disease prevention. This course prepares the Physician Assistant student to recognize social determinants of health and population health considerations and to effectively communicate with individuals regarding health behaviors.
  • MPAS-M 506 Health Care Across the Lifespan (3 cr.) This course is part of a two-course series on health promotion and disease prevention. This course prepares the Physician Assistant student to apply the principles of health promotion and disease prevention across the lifecycle.
  • MPAS-M 507 Patient Evaluation I (3 cr.) This course prepares the Physician Assistant student to utilize basic interviewing and history-taking skills, perform a complete physical exam including appropriate special tests, and present medical information in both written and oral formats.
  • MPAS-M 508 Patient Evaluation II (3 cr.) 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.
  • MPAS-M 509 U.S. Health Care: Systems, Policies and Public Health for PA (2 cr.) 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.
  • MPAS-M 510 Introduction to Evidence Based Medicine for PA (2 cr.) To prepare students to search, interpret, and evaluate the medical and scientific literature relevant to patient care based on the concepts of evidence-based medicine; to become familiar with human subject research.
  • MPAS-M 531 Clinical Physiology & Pathophysiology I (4 cr.) 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-course sequence.
  • MPAS-M 532 Clinical Physiology & Pathophysiology II (4 cr.) 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.
  • MPAS-M 681 Clinical Rotation: Family Medicine (3 cr.) This 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 and their complications and impact on patients across the life span.
  • MPAS-M 682 Clinical Rotation: Outpatient Medicine (3 cr.) This 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 and their complications, multiple co-morbidities, and impact on patients across the life span.
  • MPAS-M 683 Clinical Rotation: Women’s Health (3 cr.) This 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 and their complications and impact on patients across the life span.
  • MPAS-M 684 Clinical Rotation: Pediatrics (3 cr.) This 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 and their complications and impact on patients in the pediatric population.
  • MPAS-M 685 Clinical Rotation: Surgery (3 cr.) This 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 and their complications and impact on patients across the life span.
  • MPAS-M 686 Clinical Rotation: Behavioral Medicine (3 cr.) This 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.
  • MPAS-M 687 Clinical Rotation: Public Health and Community Medicine (3 cr.) This is the 4-week Community Medicine Clinical Rotation requirement of the experiential year. This clinical rotation provides students with a unique opportunity within a Community Medicine Health Center, to maximize the physician/physician assistant collaboration model, to further develop an awareness of and coordination with all health team members, and to experience and participate in the concept of a patient centered medical home. This rotation introduces students to diverse preventive, emergent, acute, and chronic patient encounters, and their complications and impact on patients across the life span, within the underserved population.
  • MPAS-M 688 Clinical Rotation: Internal Medicine (3 cr.) This 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 and their complications and impact on primarily adult and geriatric patients.
  • MPAS-M 689 Clinical Rotation: Emergency Medicine (3 cr.) This 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 and their complications and impact on patients across the life span.
  • MPAS-M 690 Clinical Rotation: Specialty Selective (3 cr.) This 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 and their complications and impact on primarily adult and geriatric patients.
  • MPAS-M 691 Clinical Rotation: Elective (2 cr.) This is a 3-week elective course that allows students to expand the breadth and depth of understanding in medical topic area(s) of interest.
  • MPAS-M 692 Clinical Rotation: Elective (2 cr.) This is a 3-week elective course that allows students to expand the breadth and depth of understanding in medical topic area(s) of interest.
  • MPAS-M 693 Scholarly Inquiry and Research Project For PA I (1 cr.) 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.
  • MPAS-M 694 Clinical Skills for PA II (1 cr.) This course is a continuation of the prior clinical skills course. Skills learned are pertinent to physician assistant practice, including phlebotomy, intravenous lines, musculoskeletal special tests, central venous line placement, chest tube insertion and removal, sterile technique, and suturing review.
  • MPAS-M 695 Seminar in Physician Assistant Clinical Practice (1 cr.) This course is a continuation of basic practice principles introduced in MPAS-M 500, with more emphasis placed on preparing the clinical PA student for progression of clinical skills and ultimately 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 various old and new strategies to improve their skills as clinicians related to their integral role on a team to related to enhancing patient-centered care and the PA profession as a whole.
  • MPAS-M 698 Concepts in Leadership and Management for PA (1 cr.) This course provides the framework for continuously learning to understand, appreciate, and react to the leadership and management principles necessary to influence and assume leadership positions in the Physician Assistant (PA) profession and clinical practice. Students will examine and critically analyze current theories, management principles, processes, and practices.
  • MPAS-M 520 Evidence Based Critical Inquiry (3 cr.) Applying evidence based critical inquiries into clinical practices.
  • MPAS-M 699 Remediation for PA (1 cr.) This course is a remediation course for a student who has not successfully completed a non-clinical rotation course with a minimum C final course grade per the policy outlined in the IU Master of Physician Assistant Studies Program Handbook and Policy Manual.
  • MPAS-M 696 Clinical Skills for PA I (1 cr.) This course is an introduction to clinical skills pertinent to physician assistant practice, including local anesthesia, suturing, stapling, incision and drainage, hand knot tying, lumbar puncture, ultrasound, thoracentesis, and joint injections.
  • MPAS-M 700 Graduate Preparedness as Entry Level PA (2 cr.) This course is a summative portfolio of program-defined competencies and requirements for graduation as an entry-level PA.
  • MPAS-M 818 Principles of Medical Pharmacology (3 cr.) This survey of pharmacology will teach the student general principles of drug action. Students will develop an understanding of the basic pharmacokinetic, pharmacodynamic, and pharmacogenetic principles underlying drug therapy; prototypic drugs and their adverse effects; the development of drug dependence and addiction; and an awareness of environmental toxins.