4 credit hours
Prerequisite: Completion of the didactic year of the Drury University Physician Assistant Program.
The five-week emergency medicine supervised clinical practice experience is designed to give students the opportunity to triage, evaluate, diagnose, and manage patients across the lifespan in an emergency medicine setting. Students will have the opportunity to practice prioritizing/triaging patient encounters, perform problem-focused examinations, perform skills/procedures required for stabilization and treatment, and implement care management plans for common medical and behavioral health conditions seen in the emergency department. Students are expected to spend a minimum of 36-hours per week providing patient care at the clinical rotation site. Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory grading.