MSPA 5045 - Clinical Medicine: EENT

4 credit hours

EENT is the first of the clinical medicine series, which is an eleven-course series providing physician assistant students a systems-based education on health promotion and disease prevention, and patient evaluation, diagnosis and management across the life span. Building upon the material that is presented in the preceding foundational medicine courses, each clinical medicine course will provide instruction covering a particular body system, including the pathophysiologic basis of disease (including genetics and molecular mechanisms of disease), generating systems-specific differential diagnoses, ordering and interpreting diagnostic studies, and formulating and implementing pharmacologic and non- pharmacologic treatment plans. Special emphasis will be given to the major principles of pharmacology, including concepts of drug absorption, distribution, metabolism, and elimination. Medications covered will include those most commonly used in the care and treatment of the system-specific conditions. Students will be challenged to apply their knowledge through problem-based case scenarios to develop problem solving and medical decision-making skills in addition to completing written examinations. This program of study will prepare physician assistant students to provide preventive, emergent, acute, chronic, rehabilitative, palliative, and end-of-life care to prenatal, pediatric, adult, and elderly populations. The Clinical Medicine series has been carefully organized to present material system by system to promote interaction of material from parallel courses in the curriculum, i.e. History and Physical, Pharmacology and Body, Mind & Spirit.