PAM 553 General Surgery Clinical Rotation| Course

• Prerequisite: Completion of all PA Didactic Studies

This clinical experience is designed to familiarize the student to a wide variety of pre-operative, intra-operative and post-operative patient encounters in outpatient and inpatient settings. The student will perform the collection of historical, physical and laboratory data and develop an understanding of patient evaluation and treatment of patients through pre-operative, intra-operative and post-operative patient encounters. The students will be given opportunities to perform technical skills and surgical assisting in the operating room under the supervision of physician(s) and/or physician assistant(s).