理想及使命

在这一页, 你会发现波胆网站MPAS项目的愿景和使命, 以及技术标准和项目能力.

愿景

To strive for excellence in physician assistant education whose graduates are known as outstanding clinicians in the 社区 and leaders in the profession trained by faculty who are recognized for developing and researching innovative curricular methods.

任务

波胆网站MPAS项目致力于培养知识, 富有同情心的, 道德, and clinically skillful graduates who are ready to provide health care services to all persons without exclusion and who are willing to become the future leaders and educators of the profession. 这将通过以下方式实现: 
  • Recruiting and retaining outstanding PA 学生 from diverse backgrounds and educating them to practice as primary care providers to serve those in the communities they live and work; 
  • Providing a student-centered curriculum which promotes self-directed and lifelong learning through the use of evidence-based medicine; 
  • 推广专业精神和服务社会; 
  • 促进医学知识的进步和PA教育; 
  • 鼓励学生为当地服务, 国家, and inter国家 communities through active involvement in service-oriented programs for medically underserved populations; 
  • Involving 学生 in interprofessional activities and encouraging the development of team skills and an appreciation of team-based, 以病人为中心的护理;
  • Promoting participation in professional organizations and the education of future PAs;
  • 通过促进健康支持可持续发展, 疾病预防, 健康知识, 文化谦卑, 减少课堂内外的印刷材料.

学生必须具备心理素质, 物理, 情感能力 essential to attaining the competencies required to function as a physician assistant and to successfully maintain the rigor required in the PA program. All PA 学生 will be expected to have abilities in five categories: observation, 沟通, 电动机, 智力和社会. These abilities enable the student to perform tasks required to meet graduation and professional requirements as measured by state and 国家 certification, 许可证和注册程序. Candidates who posses any disability that would potentially interfere with the attainment of such competencies are encouraged to contact the Director of the MPAS program to discuss and identify possible accommodations. Chatham University and/or affiliated sites may arrange to enable the candidate to demonstrate the necessary 物理, 精神, 情感能力.

观察: Candidates must have sufficient sensory capacity to observe in the problem-based learning and lecture settings, 实验室, 以及医疗保健或社区环境. Sensory abilities must be adequate to perform appropriate examination or assessments 包括 functional vision, 听力, 和触觉来观察病人的状况, 并引出适合医生助理的信息.

沟通由于这个项目的快节奏和严格的性质, 学生必须具备良好的英语口语和书面能力. Students must be able to communicate effectively and professionally in academic, 社区, 教育, 医疗保健设置.

电动机: Students must have the ability to participate in basic diagnostic and therapeutic maneuvers and procedures. 学生必须能够适应病人的护理环境, 并且能够在设置之间移动，比如教室, 医疗保健设施, 教育, 或者社区环境. Physical stamina sufficient to complete the rigorous course of didactic and clinical study is required. Long periods of sitting, standing or moving are required in a variety of learning sites. 学生必须精通打字技巧.

知识学生必须能够测量, 计算, 原因, 分析, and integrate information as well as be able to comprehend temporal and spatial relationships.

社会学生必须有良好的判断力和办事能力, 适当而有效地, 面对临床实践中固有的不确定性, 必须保持成熟, 与教师保持良好的专业关系, 学生, 病人, 以及医疗保健和/或教育团队的其他成员. Students are expected to fully participate in 物理 examination courses as both examiners and 病人. Students should be comfortable with modest exposure of the body to allow for adequate examination (donning of sports bra or tank top for women, males will remove shirt; and shorts for both males and females). Students must also be able to be comfortable with donning surgical scrub clothing that expose the arms above the elbows, 颈部和胸部上部.

Students should be completely comfortable working in small groups for problem based learning, 包括, but not limited to: verbal discussion of knowledge and limitations of knowledge, scribing of information via handwritten transmission in front of a group of 学生 and a faculty member, or typing via use of smart board technology in front of a group of 学生 and a faculty member.

在实验室环境中, 学生 should be comfortable with and prepared to work with different 学生, 无论是男性还是女性, with regard to 物理 examination and/or procedures in a large room with other 学生 present. 没有对同学进行生殖器、乳房或直肠检查.

波胆网站MPAS项目定义的能力

  1. 应用 knowledge of basic sciences with a focus on clinical application across the lifespan.
  2. Perform an appropriate history and 物理 examination to determine a differential diagnosis and plan of action.
  3. Manage general medical and surgical conditions to include understanding the indications, 禁忌症, 副作用, 的相互作用, and adverse reactions of pharmacologic agents and other appropriate treatments.
  4. Competently perform clinical procedures considered essential in primary and surgical care.
  5. Students will develop the skills necessary to become lifelong learners and demonstrate commitment to stay current with medical knowledge through critical evaluation of medical literature.
  6. 通过认识文化规范来锻炼文化谦逊, 需要, 影响, 和社会经济, 环境, and other population-level determinants affecting the 社区 and individual being served.
  7. Demonstrates ability to effectively communicate across the continuum (verbally, 语言的方式, 以及书面形式), 与病人, 家庭, 医疗团队.
  8. Respect the dignity and privacy of 病人 across the lifespan 包括 consideration for legal and 道德 matters.
  9. 展示情绪弹性, 适应性, 自我意识, 了解健康和自我照顾的重要性.
  10. 识别风险因素, 筛选, 以及在整个生命周期中预防疾病的干预措施.
  11. Understand the legal aspects of the healthcare system 包括 the regulatory environment, 资金及支付来源, PA执业范围, 以及私人助理/医生关系.