PA - 642 Family Medicine III

Credits: 5

A continuation of PA 632. The family medicine clinical rotation will expose the student to the care of patients with a wide variety of medical problems likely to be encountered in a primary care/family practice outpatient setting. This rotation will include exposure to diagnostic studies/procedures that are ordered/interpreted/performed by healthcare providers in this discipline. The student will develop and refine techniques of patient rapport including anticipation of patient needs and explanation of the essentials of the disease.

Prerequisite: PA 631 and student in clinical phase of the program