PA 6208 Intro Health Professions & PA Practice
Introduction to Health Professions & PA Practice - This course presents an introduction/overview of the Physician Assistant (PA) profession. This course addresses a variety of topics in physician assistant professional development including emphasizing professionalism, intellectual honesty, and the PA's role in health care delivery as a member of an interdisciplinary team. Additional emphasis is placed upon the inception, history, and evolution of the PA profession throughout the fields of medicine and surgery; PA relationships with the supervising physician, the patient; responsibilities including the concepts of privilege, confidentiality and informed consent. The student will also explore media and medicine topics, licensing, hospital credentials/liability, malpractice insurance.