4 credit hours
Prerequisite: Completion of the didactic year of the Drury University Physician Assistant Program.
The five-week family medicine supervised clinical practice experience is designed to give students the opportunity to evaluate, diagnose, and manage patients from birth through geriatrics in an outpatient clinical setting. Students will have the opportunity to perform preventative/screening examinations, perform problem-focused examinations, and develop and implement care management plans for common acute and chronic medical and behavioral health conditions. Students are expected to spend a minimum of 36 hours per week providing patient care at the clinical rotation site. Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory grading.