B.Sc Physician Assistant
The aim of the undergraduate Physician Assistant program is to prepare graduates to provide diagnostic, therapeutic and preventive healthcare services, under the supervision of a qualified and licensed Physician or Surgeon
On completion of B.Sc. in Physician Assistant program the graduates will be able to:
· Take medical histories
· Examine patients
· Write case summaries
· Order and interpret laboratory tests like X-rays, ECGs, ultra sonogram, Echocardiogram,
· Treadmill tests, pulmonary function tests etc.,
· Make diagnosis
· Counsel patients
· Interpret and report coronary angiograms and various other interventional procedures done in
· Catheterization laboratories.
In Wards and critical care units
· Take rounds
· Manage emergency situation until the arrival of the specialist
· Record progress notes
· Order or carry out therapy under the supervision of a specialist
· Prepare discharge summaries
In surgery wing
· Work as first and second assistants of whom one of the important tasks is to harvest saphenous Vein for CABG surgery.
· They harvest and prepare homografts
· Harvesting saphenous veins and other conduits
· Establishing CardioPulmonary Bypass as a Clinical Perfusionist
· Capable of handling emergency crisis in OR
· Prepare operation notes
· Involve in postoperative management of the patients
· Involve in wound management.
Eligibility
Candidates belonging to all categories for admission to the B.SC. Physician Assistant should have passed the qualifying examinations after period of 12 years of study with the following subjects of Physics, Chemistry and Biology or Botany and Zoology.
Age Limit For Admission
A candidate should have completed the age of 17 years at the time of admission
Duration: 3 years + 1 year internship
First Year
ANATOMY
PHYSIOLOGY
BIOCHEMISTRY
INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTERS
TECHNICAL WRITING/SPOKEN ENGLISH PATIENT ORIENTED COMMUNICATION SKILLS
Second Year
MEDICINE & PHARMACOLOGY
SURGERY/ EQUIPMENTS / ANAESTHESIOLOGY / OBSTETRICS & GYNAECOLOGY
PAEDIATRICS & GERIATRICS and CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY
Third Year
CARDIOLOGY & CARDIAC SURGERY /NEUROLOGY /
NEPHROLOGY / PULMONOLOGY / GASTROENTEROLOGY/ORTHOPAEDICS
Internship Postings
B.Sc. Physician Assistant course Period of Internship:
12 months Posting Duration
· General Medicine - 3 months
· Surgery- 3 months
· O&G -1 month
· ENT - 1 month
· Orthopaedics - 1 month
· Paediatrics - 1 month
· ICU - 1 month
· Emergency - 1 month
