PAs in Health Care II equips students with the advanced clinical and procedural skills essential for success in clinical clerkships and future practice. Through immersive, hands-on training, students gain supervised experience in key bedside procedures, including suturing and wound management, gynecologic examination, point-of-care ultrasound, and advanced cardiac life support. Procedural instruction is paired with the safety, consent, and communication practices that surround each skill in real clinical settings.nThe course also prompts critical engagement with the forces shaping the conditions in which patients live and seek care, including social and structural drivers of health, poverty and resource constraint, the integration of artificial intelligence into clinical practice, and the health effects of climate change. Two reflective sessions support professional identity formation and structured self-assessment of readiness for supervised practice, while clerkship preparation activities orient students to the performance and support resources available to them during the clinical year. This course is offered to students enrolled in the Master of Science in Physician Assistant Studies program only. Prerequisite: Successful completion of PAS 291
2 units · Medical School MD Grades
PAs in Health Care II equips students with the advanced clinical and procedural skills essential for success in clinical clerkships and future practice. Through immersive, hands-on training, students gain supervised experience in key bedside procedures, including suturing and wound management, gynecologic examination, point-of-care ultrasound, and advanced cardiac life support. Procedural instruction is paired with the safety, consent, and communication practices that surround each skill in real clinical settings.nThe course also prompts critical engagement with the forces shaping the conditions in which patients live and seek care, including social and structural drivers of health, poverty and resource constraint, the integration of artificial intelligence into clinical practice, and the health effects of climate change. Two reflective sessions support professional identity formation and structured self-assessment of readiness for supervised practice, while clerkship preparation activities orient students to the performance and support resources available to them during the clinical year. This course is offered to students enrolled in the Master of Science in Physician Assistant Studies program only. Prerequisite: Successful completion of PAS 291
Offered in Autumn 2026 at Stanford University.