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INTRODUCTION Teaching institutions strive to prepare physician assistant (PA) students for their careers through rigorous academics and a comprehensive range of clinical experiences. The first year establishes the foundation of medical knowledge, through didactic studies focused largely on anatomy and the pathology of diseases as well as patient care skills including history taking, physical examination, differential diagnoses, treatment, and prevention. The second year comprises clinical encounters commonly structured in 4to 6-week clinical rotation experiences. The focus of the clinical year is to allow students to interact with patients and employ their newly developed clinical skills. In our program, students are required to log each of their clinical encounters on a daily basis in order to document the various clinical scenarios they experienced and the procedures performed. Currently, no research has been performed to determine whether there is a statistically significant correlation between the numbers of clinical encounters and performance on the PANCE. Since clinical encounters comprise the entire second year (and third year at some programs), and are a fundamental aspect of the way PAs are trained, research is needed to determine the impact of clinical encounters related to PANCE scores. |
