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Graduate Course Proposal Form Submission Detail - PAS5101
Tracking Number - 3032
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Current Status:
Approved by SCNS - 2013-07-01
Campus: Tampa
Submission Type: New
Course Change Information (for course changes only):
Comments: to GC 1/14/13. for MA in P.A.; needs text info. Faculty emailed 1/25/13. Updated; approved. to USF Sys 2/20/13. to SCNS 2/28/13. Apprd eff 4/1/13. Nmbr 6702 apprd as 5101
Detail Information
- Date & Time Submitted: 2012-11-29
- Department: Medicine
- College: MD
- Budget Account Number: HSC-10009-611600-000000-0000000
- Contact Person: Larry Collins
- Phone: 813-396-9424
- Email: lcollins@health.usf.edu
- Prefix: PAS
- Number: 5101
- Full Title: Advanced Internal Medicine Clinical Rotation
- Credit Hours: 6
- Section Type: I -
Internships (Including Practicum)
- Is the course title variable?: N
- Is a permit required for registration?: N
- Are the credit hours variable?: N
- Is this course repeatable?:
- If repeatable, how many times?: 0
- Abbreviated Title (30 characters maximum): ADV INTERNAL MED CLINICAL ROT
- Course Online?: C -
Face-to-face (0% online)
- Percentage Online: 100
- Grading Option:
-
- Prerequisites:
- Corequisites:
- Course Description: The six-week advanced internal medicine rotation is designed to expose the physician assistant student to providing care that is compassionate, appropriate, and effective for the treatment of the health problems of critically ill patients.
- Please briefly explain why it is necessary and/or desirable to add this course: Needed for program/concentration/certificate change
- What is the need or demand for this course? (Indicate if this course is part of a required sequence in the major.) What other programs would this course service? To be consistent with other Physician Assistant Degree Programs
- Has this course been offered as Selected Topics/Experimental Topics course? If yes, how many times? No
- What qualifications for training and/or experience are necessary to teach this course? (List minimum qualifications for the instructor.) MD, DO, PA, ARNP
- Objectives: To learn how to evaluate and manage patients with different forms of critical illness including respiratory failure, hypotension, sepsis, organ failure and gastrointestinal hemorrhage
To learn how to initiate and manage invasive and non-invasive modes of mechanical ventilation
To learn how to interpret and apply the results of arterial blood gas analysis
To learn how to protect patients from complications associated with stays in the intensive care unit
To learn about the application of palliative care medicine principles in the intensive care unit setting.
To learn to work as part of a multidisciplinary care team
- Learning Outcomes: At the end of this rotation, students should be able to:
Evaluate and manage patients with various forms of respiratory failure including COPD and asthma exacerbations, pneumonia, acute respiratory distress syndrome and pulmonary edema
Evaluate and manage patients with sepsis and severe life-threatening infections
Evaluate and manage patients with severe organ failure including renal, hepatic and coagulation failure
Evaluate and manage patients with gastrointestinal hemorrhage
Evaluate and manage patients with severe hypotension
Evaluate and manage patients with severe metabolic and endocrinologic disturbances
Initiate appropriate empiric antibiotic coverage for patients with severe infections
Initiate and titrate vaso-active medications
Initiate, manage and discontinue both invasive and non-invasive modes of mechanical ventilation.
Interpret arterial blood gases and apply this information in the care of patients
Initiate appropriate measures to prevent complications associated with ICU care
Apply the principles of palliative care medicine to patients in the intensive care unit
- Major Topics: Pulmonary
ARDS
Acute management of respiratory failure
COPD
PE
Pneumonia
Pulmonary hypertension
Post-operative respiratory failure
Cardiac
CHF
chest pain
A fib
Rheumatology
Small vessel vasculitis
Acute gout
Dermatology
Stevens-Johnson
Gastroenterology
GI bleeding
Cholangitis
Cholecystitis
SBO
Pancreatitis
Bowel ischemia
Liver
End-stage liver disease
Acute alcoholic hepatitis
Fulminant hepatic failure
Portal hypertension
Refractory ascites
Hematology
Anemia
TTP
ITP
HIT
Sickle cell disease
Oncology
AML/ALL
Complications of treatment of hematologic malignancy
Complications of treatment of solid tumor
Graft vs. host
Endocrine
DKA
DM management
Adrenal insufficiency,
General
Management of sepsis
Electrolyte disorders (K, Na, Ca)
Hip fracture
Peri-operative risk management (pulm and cardiac risk stratification)
Overdose
ETOH withdrawal
CO toxicity
Infectious
Sepsis/sepsis syndrome/septic shock
Endocarditis
Meningitis
Pneumonia
Renal
Acute renal failure
Neurology
Neuromuscular respiratory failure
Acute stroke
Anoxic brain injury
- Textbooks: Harrison's Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine. Joseph Loscalzo. McGraw-Hill.
- Course Readings, Online Resources, and Other Purchases:
- Student Expectations/Requirements and Grading Policy: Students are required to keep a complete record of all clinical encounters (both procedures & diagnoses) throughout the rotation. The primary tool for entering, maintaining, and tracking accurate records will be Evalue. In order for the clerkship director to monitor and facilitate clinical experiences, it will be necessary for students to keep logbooks up to date. At a minimum, students are required to update their logbooks at least once a week. A portion of the grade grade will be determined by keeping timely records. By not sufficiently documenting achievements in the required clinical experiences, students who fail to maintain timely, complete, and accurate records of their patient encounters may fail the rotation.
- Assignments, Exams and Tests: End of Rotation Exam
- Attendance Policy: During the clinical years, the students responsibilities lie within the individual clerkship. Attendance within the clerkship is a demonstration of attitude and professional behavior. This behavior impacts all members of the healthcare team including fellow students and patients. Any absence from the clerkship may have a direct impact on student performance, the broad-spectrum clinical experience, evaluation of professionalism, overall grade and the successful completion of the clerkship.
- Policy on Make-up Work: Delinquencies will accumulate only if the student does not have a legitimate explanation such as illness or major personal difficulty. Thus, students will be given an opportunity to explain before a penalty is assessed. The Rotation Director would render a final determination. The above delineated process describes the minimum action to be taken across clerkships. Additional requirements and consequences as determined by each clinical rotation director may apply. Failure to complete the logbook can result in grade reduction.
- Program This Course Supports: Physician Assistant
- Course Concurrence Information:
- if you have questions about any of these fields, please contact chinescobb@grad.usf.edu or joe@grad.usf.edu.