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Lisa Adams
Executive Program Manager Physician Assistant Program
Medical Knowledge
1. Demonstrate the biomedical knowledge required to care for patients seeking services for preventive, emergent, acute, and chronic healthcare during any stage in a patient’s lifespan.
2. Apply evidenced based medicine concepts in an effort to improve patient outcomes and patient understanding of the care that they receive.
3. Recognize the impact of environment and structural disparities on health.
Interpersonal Skills
4. Demonstrate communication skills that support the delivery of sound patient education to diverse populations in such a manner that facilitates patient understanding.
5. Possess the skills necessary to develop and maintain medical records that will support inter-professional communication and minimize errors in care delivery
Clinical and Technical Skills
6. Demonstrate an ability to elicit an appropriate and essential medical history from any patient as based upon presenting complaint, co-morbid conditions, age, gender, race, and socio-economic position.
7. Demonstrate the psychomotor skills necessary to complete a full or problem focused physical examination, as may be required in preventive, emergent, acute, or chronic care settings.
8. Provide clinical procedures and testing in a safe and competent manner, as may be required in preventive, emergent, acute, and chronic care settings.
Professional Behaviors
9. Adhere to the “Guidelines for Ethical Conduct for the Physician Assistant Profession,” established by the American Academy of Physician Assistants.
10. Recognize their limits and work with other health professionals to provide care that is safe, timely, efficient, effective, and equitable.
Clinical Reasoning and Problem-Solving Abilities
11. Demonstrate the ability to gather and analyze patient care data effectively, leading to the development of differential diagnoses and effective clinical decision-making.
12. Demonstrate the ability to develop appropriate and complete diagnostic evaluations.
13. Demonstrate the knowledge and skills necessary to develop treatment management plans for patients seeking care in preventive, emergent, acute, and chronic care settings.