Course Description

PA 500 PATHOPHYSIOLOGY   1.5 Credit(s)
This course for Physician Associate students develops a deep, clinically oriented understanding of how disease alters normal physiology across major organ systems. Students study general pathophysiologic mechanisms-including inflammation, infection, ischemia, neoplasia, immune dysfunction, and genetic abnormalities-at both the cellular and organ levels, and learn how these changes disturb homeostasis and produce characteristic clinical presentations. The course is explicitly designed to integrate with concurrent and follow-on principles-of-medicine coursework by reinforcing the physiologic basis for disease presentation, diagnostic reasoning, and therapeutic decision-making.
Offered: Fall Semester All Years