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