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OUR STUDENTS
& CURRICULUM
 We have 29 students
in the class of 2007. Fourteen of them have already earned
Bachelor degrees, and three more have Associate degrees. The
average age of the class is 30. For most of these students,
practicing as physician assistants will be a second career in
health care. Their backgrounds include respiratory therapy,
nursing, emergency medical services, laboratory technology,
radiological therapy, and teaching.
The Program suggests a minimum of 500
hours of hands-on health care experience for all students
entering the program. This experience varies from having had
prior health-related occupations to volunteering in a
physician's office. See
pictures and autobiographies of our students.
PA Curriculum
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The first year of
our PA school comprises 10.5 months of intensive instruction in:
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Clinical
Medicine
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Clinical
Diagnostics — including instruction in ECG reading, basic
x-rays, blood gas and PFT interpretation in universal
precautions, and other OSHA requirements
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Clinical
Anatomy and Physiology
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Behavioral
Medicine
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Clinical
Pharmacology
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Professional
Seminar
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Clinical
Skills — interviewing, performing H&P's, physical
diagnosis and such skills as suturing, casting, etc.)
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Instruction in scrubbing for surgery and in sterile
technique by staff at CRMH
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BLS, ACLS, and PALS certification
- The second year
comprises 13 clinical rotations:
- Internal Medicine
I & II
- Family Practice
I & II
- General Surgery
- Pediatrics
- Women's
Health
- Emergency
Medicine
- Psychiatry
- General
Orthopedics
- Community
Medicine
- One Elective
- Clinical
Concentration (6 weeks)
- One of our
faculty, an MD, states that this year is frighteningly similar to the third
year of medical school in structure.
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