PA 630 Summative Experience
The Summative Experience is designed to assure that each student has met ARC-PA and the program's defined cognitive and clinical skills performance objectives prior to graduation. In addition to assessing the student's proficiency by individual competencies, student performance will be assessed through the achievement of the program specific competencies. The summative evaluation includes measurement of the dimensions of cognition, technical skill, integration, rapport, behavior and attitude. The evaluation consists of an objective examination of medical knowledge, 360° professionalism assessment, medical procedure evaluation, diagnostic study interpretation evaluation, and objectively structured clinical examinations to evaluate interactions between the student and patient (history taking, physical examination and clinical reasoning) assessment of critical thinking and professional behavior. Students are required to pass this course in order to graduate from the program.