Description
This course exposes students to the physician assistant profession. It covers a number of introductory topics such as the history, development, current status, and the projected future of the physician assistant profession. Other topics include scope of practice, health care delivery systems, interpersonal communication, medical decision making, licensing and certification, prescriptive authority, and employment issues.
This course also explores current and historical ethical and legal issues pertaining to the health care industry, and specifically the role of physician assistants. Students examine various topics including, but not limited to, euthanasia, abortion, behavioral modification, allocation and distribution of medical resources, in vitro fertilization, genetic screening, and human experimentation.