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Southern Illinois University Carbondale

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The Effects Of Covid-19 On Clinical Coordination And The Education Of Physician Assistant Students, Halley Barke Feb 2023

The Effects Of Covid-19 On Clinical Coordination And The Education Of Physician Assistant Students, Halley Barke

SIU Journal of Medical Science Scholarly Works

COVID-19 left a damaged path since its arrival in December 2019. Clinical Coordination in a Physician Assistant (PA) program is an important aspect of PA education. It is important to examine the effects, good or bad, that COVID-19 and other factors have played in the clinical rotation scheduling and placement of PA students in their clinical rotation experiences. To evaluate those effects, it was determined to look at the encounter numbers from the past seven years in the Evalue online system of students in the Southern Illinois University (SIU) PA program as well as survey results obtained from other institutions …