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Nov 24, 2024
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2024-2025 Graduate Catalog
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MPAS 660 - Behavioral Health 6.00 credit hours
This six-week clinical course provides physician assistant students with supervised experience in caring for ambulatory and/or hospitalized patients with psychiatric disorders. The goals of the Behavioral Health rotation are to provide physician assistant students with experiences that build and increase their behavioral health-specific skills in a hospital or outpatient setting. Physician assistant students will have the opportunity to assess and manage commonly encountered behavioral, social and psychiatric problems in adolescent, adult, and elderly patients. The student will be given opportunities to participate in the clinical management plan for patients following psychiatric evaluation, incorporate behavioral therapies promoted by mental health professionals and assist in the monitoring of psychotropic medications. The importance of a team-based approach to the management of behavioral health care delivery will be highlighted throughout the clinical experience.
Prerequisite(s): MPAS 503 , MPAS 513 , MPAS 523 , MPAS 535 , MPAS 543 , MPAS 552 , MPAS 562 .
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