PA 530 Clinical Medicine III
This is the third course in a four-part series, exposing the student to the study of common medical and surgical disorders encountered in general medicine. Course content includes typical clinical presentation, etiology, pathophysiology, diagnostic work-up, formulation of treatment plan, referral, prevention, and coordination of care. A correlational approach will be used with interaction with physical diagnosis, pharmacology, and clinical diagnostics. Systems based topics covered include genitourinary, neurology, and hematology/oncology. This course also includes a unit on emergency medicine. Students will develop strategies for enhancing patient health and patient education and compliance, taking into consideration the socioeconomic and cultural aspects of health care through modules on rural medicine and social determinants of health., Additional medical topics that are not restricted to specific systems covered within this course include violence identification and prevention, rehabilitative medicine, end-of-life care and impairment prevention.