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Physician Assistant
Future Students
Clinical Rotations
The clinical phase is twelve months in length. Eight six-week clinical rotations are conducted at a variety of clinical sites. Five weeks of the clinical rotation are spent on site, and one week is spent on campus for exams, lectures, board preparation, and course work. The rotation specialties include Emergency Medicine, Family Practice, Internal Medicine, Pediatrics, Surgery, Behavioral Medicine, Obstetrics & Gynecology, and an elective of the student’s choice.
Clinical sites are recruited by the Program’s Clinical Coordinator and personnel from the Area Health Education Center (AHEC). Sites offer the students the widest possible variety of clinical experiences for that specific clinical rotation (course) and service delivery system. Students are not required to supply their own clinical sites or preceptors for clinical rotations. Sites for rotations will be determined by the department. Alternate site rotations selected by the student are welcome. In order to qualify for rotations outside of South University sites, or in student selected sites, a student must demonstrate successful academic, clinical, and professional progress.
Physicians, physician assistants, and other health care providers serve as preceptors for clinical students in direct patient care, providing the opportunity for the student to perfect technical and procedural skills, and to become competent in communication, physical diagnosis, succinct recording and reporting, problem assessment, and development of a logical approach to further studies and therapy.
Our students rotate in busy clinics, private physician offices, teaching hospitals, large institutions, and military hospitals and clinics. Rotations exist in small Georgia towns and huge metropolitan cities. We send our students out to underserved areas in the heights of the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Georgia and in the most rural areas of Southwest Georgia and Middle Georgia, and into our own underserved urban clinics here in Savannah. Our students are offered a wide variety of experiences and locations for their clinical rotations, thus rounding out the application of knowledge and skills to actual patient care.
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The South University
PA Program is now
accepting applications
for the class beginning
January 2009.
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