1 credit hours
The summative evaluation course is a capstone of the physician assistant program that measures mastery of the PA program graduate competencies. The evaluation process will consider each of the following graduate competency categories: medical knowledge, interpersonal and communication skills, clinical and technical skills, clinical reasoning and problem-solving abilities, and professional behavior.
The purpose of the exams is twofold. First, to ascertain if the student has both the broad and specific knowledge expected of someone holding a master’s degree in physician assistant studies. Second, to determine whether the student has been able to integrate knowledge obtained from individual courses into unified concepts. The student will be given the End-of-Curriculum Exam, a clinical skills examination, and an Objective Structured Clinical Evaluation (OSCE), and a summative Objective Structured Long Examination Record (OSLER).