PAMS 6552 Obstetrics and Gynecology

This core clinical rotation provides students with exposure to the principles and practice of women’s health, obstetrics, and gynecology.  This core rotation provides students with experience in managing common women’s health prevention and diseases in both the inpatient and outpatient medical settings.  This clinical rotation enables students to assess adolescent, adult, and elderly female patients seeking medical care with an emphasis on menarche, family planning, childbearing, peri-menopause, menopause and post-menopause.  Prevention, recognition, and treatment of prenatal, gynecologic care, sexually transmitted diseases, cancers, will be addressed.  Students will gain exposure to labor and deliver, surgical aspects of gynecology, as well as function as a part of the interprofessional healthcare team.  This clinical experience will enable students to achieve the learning outcomes needed to attain the competencies in the management of acute, emergent, chronic conditions, and implement preventive care strategies.  This clinical rotation will enable the student to provide care as an entry level physician assistant upon graduation. 

Credits

5

Distribution

Physician Assistant