2023-24
This course provides the PA with an opportunity to explore chronic disease epidemiology as it relates to specific diseases, including cancer, cardiovascular, chronic lung, and rheumatologic disease; and psychiatric issues. There will be a focus on incidence and prevalence data as well as interventions to mitigate the negative effects of chronic disease.
This course will provide PAs with an overview of key principles in epidemiology and biostatistics.
This course examines how the personal characteristics of organizational members influence the effectiveness and productivity of organizations and the job satisfaction of its members. It is believed that organizations are composed of three levels, the individual, the group or department, and the organization itself. This course will focus on the problems and challenges leaders face in dealing with the individual and the small groups in the organization. Special attention will be given to the role of teams in organizations, the stages of team development, and actions that can support the development of effective teams. The realities of interpersonal processes are considered through examination of the roles of power, politics, and conflict in organizations. The human side of organizational change is then explored with a focus on understanding how and why people react to organizational change and identifying opportunities for enhancing the effective implementation of change.
This course will provide PAs with the needed policy, economic and practice knowledge needed to fill the growing demand of providing care through telehealth.
This course will provide PAs with the needed foundation in economic and practice management needed to fill the growing demand of providing care through telehealth.
This course will provide PAs with the needed foundation in legal principles and risk mitigation needed to fill the growing demand of providing care through telehealth.
This course will provide PAs with an intense educational exposure in the area of healthcare management principles emphasizing administrative leadership in building partnerships and developing tools and resources to promote positive change in the healthcare system.
This course will provide PAs with an intense educational exposure in the area of health care advocacy methods emphasizing leadership in building partnerships and developing tools and resources to promote positive change in the healthcare system.
This course will provide PAs with an overview of the history of public health and how an understanding of this history relates to current practices and policies in public health.
This course covers essential topics in public health for the PA, including the effect of the environment and toxins on human populations and public health emergency preparedness and response.
This course will have two major portions. The first will involve basic and advanced principles of creating a business plan, healthcare fiscal management, forecasting revenues and expenses, and strategic planning and marketing. The second portion will focus on the informatics of healthcare and healthcare delivery, including the application of modern technology to healthcare. Other topics will include telehealth, electronic health records, digital health, public health, and the legal/ethical issues of informatics.
This course provides PA with a concrete foundation in health care finance, resource allocation, and administration. The goal is to assist students develop practical approaches to improving the excellence and delivery of health care. Health care decisions are especially apt to have some form of ethical consequence. This course is designed to provide a basic framework from which to consider these consequences, as well as give the health care professional tools to develop management styles.
This course is designed to expose the student to the clinical aspects of disaster medicine by encouraging exploration of the roles of health care providers in disasters, the study of clinical situations that occur during disasters, analysis of public, occupational, and environmental health issues, and applying clinical research and epidemiology concepts. Special emphasis will be made to leadership roles in disaster medicine.
This course will provide PAs with exceptional adaptive critical thinking skills, leadership and teamwork traits, multi-tasking ability, and position them to be well suited for work in high stress wilderness environments.
This course will provide PAs with exceptional critical thinking skills and leadership and teamwork traits, multi-tasking ability, and position them to be well suited for work in high stress emergency and disaster environments.
This course provides an introduction to important global health issues, including determinants of health, key areas of disease burden, and the role that PAs can play in taking a leadership role in solving these problems. The goal of the course is to expand the PAs understanding of the impact of infectious and chronic diseases on the world’s population with particular attention paid to the health status of women, children and the poor. Students will examine case studies of successful global health interventions to understand features of successful programs.
This course will provide PAs with an intense educational exposure in the area of tropical diseases and travel medicine with an emphasis on the clinical assessment of patients who present for pre-or post-travel advice and medical care.
This course will provide PAs with an overview of key social and behavioral issues associated with global health. Focus areas include social determinants of health, measuring socioeconomic status, global health disparities, health and human rights, medical anthropology, and ethics in global health research.
Students explore relevant health care law and policy issues that impact the PA profession and health care delivery systems. Emphasis will be placed on leadership roles and professional relationships in the health care system
The student will define the American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM) and Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, fifth edition: text revision (DSM-5-TR) criteria for substance use disorders (SUDs) and common co-occurring mental health disorders. The student will explore the etiology, neurobiology, neurochemistry, pathophysiology, transgenerational susceptibility and inheritance of addiction, and environmental factors that contribute to addiction. Also examined will be neuroplasticity, brain circuitry, neuroimaging, genomics, epigenetics and the role of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis in addiction. Individual substance use topics will be investigated, including comorbid interactions and synergistic effects of multiple drug use. Topics will expand clinically to the physical exam focused on tolerance, dependence and addiction, drug use findings, the acute and long-term effects and comorbidities of chemical and behavioral abuse, and SUD interventions in the emergency department.
The student will examine the pharmacologic evaluation, management, and treatment of SUDs, the mechanisms of action of medications to treat SUDs and psychotropic medications for common comorbid mental health disorders, as well as essential prescribing information. Neuromodulation, emerging immunotherapies, psychogenomics, and psychoneuroendocrine treatments, and neuroimaging for SUDs will be explored. The student will differentiate between validated screens used for SUDs and comorbid mental health conditions, and levels of integrated care and its importance in treating this population. Finally, the student will investigate the use of psychedelics and cannabinoids as treatments. Coordination to obtain an X-waiver will be required.
The student will study current evidence-based, non-pharmacological individual and group interventions, therapies, and levels of care to treat addiction and trauma, incorporating patient-centered, trauma- informed, clinical environments. Concepts in functional and integrative medicine will also be explored.
The student will discover the multifaceted, societal ramifications of addiction and mental health disorders. Topics include overview of neuroanatomy and neurobiology, adverse childhood experiences, the neurobiology and neurochemistry of trauma, trauma models, individual and group trauma therapies, LGBQTIA+, culture and diversity in vulnerable populations, intimate partner violence, homicide, and guns, the criminal justice system, forensic psychiatry, technology in treatment, SUD in the workplace, maladaptive coping, and provider burnout. In addition, the student will investigate legal issues and regulations involved in mental health and substance use treatment. Stigma, bias, and ethical principles, including bioethics will be addressed in delivering diversity and inclusion in treatment services. The student will be trained in Motivational Interviewing techniques.
The student will explore historical, current, emerging, and controversial issues in addiction prevention, treatment, and policy. The student will examine leadership styles and how they create an organizational climate and influence staff. Utilizing information learned in the courses, the student will use critical thinking skills to develop solutions to current issues in the delivery of addiction services and design and evaluate an addiction program that meets community needs.
The student will define the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, fifth edition: text revision (DSM-5-TR) criteria for mental health disorders and behavioral addictions. The student will analyze the neurobiology, neurochemistry, and neuroplasticity of mental health disorders, associated biopsychosocial factors, differential diagnoses, psychological and physical comorbidities, how to prioritize the stability of those comorbidities, and medical conditions and medications that exacerbate mental health disorders. Topics will expand clinically to the validated screening tools, the psychiatric assessment and physical exam including in the emergency department, and new avenues in research in behavioral medicine. Neuromodulation, neuroimaging, and treatment with ketamine will be explored. Finally, the student will study advanced pharmacologic evaluation and management of mental health and substance use disorders treatments, the mechanisms of action, essential prescribing information, and nonpharmacologic interventions.
The student will continue to define the DSM-5-TR criteria for mental health disorders. The student will analyze the neurobiology, neurochemistry, and neuroplasticity of mental health disorders, associated biopsychosocial and genetic factors, differential diagnosis, psychological and medical comorbidities, how to prioritize the stability of those comorbidities, and medical conditions that exacerbate mental health disorders. The student will study advanced pharmacologic evaluation and management in pregnancy and lactation, and of additional mental health disorders, the mechanisms of action, essential prescribing information, and nonpharmacologic interventions. In addition, the student will train in general psychiatric management of borderline personality disorder, investigate generational susceptibility and inheritance of trauma and mental health disorders, examine the neurobiology of fear. Additional topics will include functional and integrative medicine, psychedelics, and cannabinoids in mental health treatment, and emerging research in psychogenomics, proteomics, and chemical neuromodulators.
The student will define further DSM-5-TR criteria for various mental health disorders through the lifespan. The multifaceted societal aspects of mental illness from the prenatal and postpartum periods, childhood, adolescence, and adulthood are explored into a patient-centered clinical practice. Additional topics will be analyzed, including the role of social media in mental health, suicide/suicide prevention, grief, and non-pharmacologic therapies.
Residential students who have graduated from the Lynchburg Master of PA Medicine do not have to take this course. This course will cover key principles of scientific research and performance improvement in PA practice. Research design, ethics, and critical appraisal of medical publications will be reviewed. This course will emphasize the application of principles of evidence-based research to achieve patient-centered clinical outcomes. Students will develop a proposal of their project.
Students will advance and execute the doctoral project proposal suitable for publication and/or presentation in medical journals or conferences. Students will synthesize findings, draw conclusions, and receive evaluation of their final project. Students will be encouraged to submit for publication and/or present their work at conferences.
This course will provide intensive clinical exposure in a chosen clinical specialty to further the student’s clinical practice. Students will apply advanced and specialized medical knowledge beyond general practice. Students will begin training within clinical competencies.
This course is the second session of the PA practicum. This course will continue to provide intensive clinical exposure in a chosen clinical specialty to further the student’s clinical practice. Students will apply advanced and specialized medical knowledge beyond general practice by training within clinical competencies.
This course is the third session of the PA practicum. This course will continue to provide intensive clinical exposure in a chosen clinical specialty to further the student’s clinical practice. Students will apply advanced and specialized medical knowledge beyond general practice.
This course is the fourth session of the PA practicum. This course will continue to provide intensive clinical exposure in a chosen clinical specialty to further the student’s clinical practice. Students will apply advanced and specialized medical knowledge beyond general practice. At the end of this course students will have completed 100% of clinical competencies.
This course will provide intensive PA educational exposure in a chosen educational setting to further the student’s development as a faculty member. Students will apply program educational experiences to the practicum setting and integrate learning theory and medical education literature to improve their students’ learning outcomes through the practicum experience.
This course is the second session of the Medical Education Practicum and provides intensive PA educational exposure in a chosen educational setting to further the student’s development as a faculty member. Students will apply program educational experiences to the practicum setting and integrate learning theory and medical education literature to improve their students’ learning outcomes through the practicum experience.
This course is the third session of the Medical Education Practicum and provides intensive PA educational exposure in a chosen educational setting to further the student’s development as a faculty member. Students will apply program educational experiences to the practicum setting and integrate learning theory and medical education literature to improve their students’ learning outcomes through the practicum experience.
This course is the fourth session of the Medical Education Practicum and provides intensive PA educational exposure in a chosen educational setting to further the student’s development as a faculty member. Students will apply program educational experiences to the practicum setting. At the completion of this course, students will summarize their progress toward integrating learning theory and medical education literature to improve their students’ learning outcomes through the practicum experience.
This course will provide intensive clinical exposure in a chosen clinical specialty to further the student’s clinical practice. Students will apply advanced and specialized medical knowledge beyond general practice. Students will begin training within clinical competencies.
This course is the second session of the PA fellowship. This course will continue to provide intensive clinical exposure in a chosen clinical specialty to further the student’s clinical practice. Students will apply advanced and specialized medical knowledge beyond general practice by training within clinical competencies.
This course is the third session of the PA fellowship. This course will continue to provide intensive clinical exposure in a chosen clinical specialty to further the student’s clinical practice. Students will apply advanced and specialized medical knowledge beyond general practice. At the end of this course, students will have completed 100% of clinical competencies.
The practicum series courses provide professional exposure in chosen clinical and administrative specialties that further the student’s achievement in professional competencies. Students will extrapolate work-based experience to a disaster and global health setting. This practicum is one of three, preparing the PA for a fourth practicum which is a one-site Emergency Management and Global Health intensive.
The practicum series courses provide professional exposure in chosen clinical and administrative specialties that further the student’s achievement in professional competencies. Students will extrapolate work-based experience to a disaster and global health setting. This practicum is one of three, preparing the PA for a fourth practicum which is an on-site Emergency Management and Global Health intensive.
The practicum series courses provide professional exposure in chosen clinical and administrative specialties that further the student’s achievement in professional competencies. Students will extrapolate work-based experience to a disaster and global health setting. This practicum is one of three, preparing the PA for a fourth practicum which is an on-site Emergency Management and Global Health intensive.
The practicum series courses provide professional exposure in chosen clinical and administrative specialties that further the student’s achievement in professional competencies. Students will extrapolate work-based experience to a disaster and global health setting. This practicum is one of three, preparing the PA for a fourth practicum which is an on-site Emergency Management and Global Health intensive.
This course provides PA faculty with a concrete foundation in best practices of teaching and learning within PA education. The goal is to assist students in the development of practical approaches to improving student learning, engagement, and teaching methods through frameworks grounded in educational theory and/or the medical education literature. The goal of the course is to improve PA faculty teaching effectiveness and their students’ learning.
This course provides PA faculty with a concrete foundation in curriculum and administrative best practices for us within PA education. The goal is to assist students in their application of educational theory and/or the medical education literature to the development of practical approaches for developing, implementing and maintaining curricular and program operational components. The goal of the course is to improve PA faculty members’ effectiveness as members and leaders of a PA education team.
This course provides PA faculty with a concrete foundation in accreditation compliance, program evaluation, and program leadership. The goal is to assist students in their application of educational theory and/or the medical education literature to the development of practical approaches for ensuring compliance with accreditation standards and conducting program evaluation. The goal of the course is to improve PA faculty members’ understanding of accreditation and program evaluation in order to support their effectiveness as leaders within their PA programs and the profession.
Provides PAs with an overview of key considerations for integrating technology into medical education framed around common medical educational goals and activities. Delivers a structured approach to developing online instruction, engaging students, and optimizing student learning within the online environment.
