PAMPAP - Physician Assistant

Master of Physician Assistant Practice

The Physician Assistant Program is designed to prepare students from diverse backgrounds to practice medicine as part of an interprofessional health care team. The 26-month program will provide students with graduate level courses and clinical experiential training to become highly competent health care providers with an emphasis on rural primary care medicine.

LEARNING OUTCOMES
- Distinguish between healthy versus ill patients in the context of the patients' lives and determine the stage of illness - acute, at risk of illness (emerging), or chronic. Students will further demonstrate the ability to utilize up-to-date scientific evidence to inform clinical reasoning and clinical judgement.
- Recognize and understand that the influences of the larger community may affect the health of patients and integrate knowledge of social determinants of health into care decisions.
- Effectively communicate with patients as partners who engage in shared decision-making and who communicate, interpret, and express themselves as individuals with unique personal, cultural, and social values.
- Recognize that the patient is at the center of all health care goals and to partner with the patient to define the patient's health care goals.
- Practice medicine in a beneficial manner, recognizing and adhering to standards of care while attuned to advancing social justice.
- Articulate the essential aspects of value-based health care and apply this understanding to the delivery of safe and quality care.