1 credit hours
Prerequisite: Satisfactory completion of the didactic and clinical phases of the PA program.
The summative evaluation course is a capstone of the physician assistant program that measures mastery of the PA program graduate competencies. The evaluation process will consider each of the following graduate competency categories: medical knowledge, interpersonal and communication skills, clinical and technical skills, clinical reasoning and problem-solving abilities, and professional behaviors. The purpose of the course is twofold. First, to ascertain if the student has both the broad and specific knowledge expected of someone holding a master’s degree in physician assistant studies. Second, to determine whether the student has integrated the knowledge obtained from individual courses into unified concepts. The student will be given the End of Curriculum Exam, a clinical skills examination, and an Objective Structured Clinical Evaluation (OSCE) and a summative Objective Structured Long Examination Record (OSLER).