How are the clinical courses taught in the PA program?
The Arcadia University PA Program utilizes the specialist model in teaching the clinical medicine courses. This means that over 40-physician specialists teach the clinical medicine components of the Program, including medicine, surgery, orthopedics, pediatrics, gynecology, obstetrics, psychiatry, dermatology, ophthalmology and emergency medicine. These courses are taught using lectures, Problem-Based Learning and case studies. Clinical experiences begin in the very first semester of the Program and by the second semester, students spend one day per week on a clinical site. In the third semester of the first year, students take a course called Clinical Decision Making, where they present cases in which they integrate their training in the basic and clinical sciences.
