CMSV 336 Clinical Curriculum Committee

Policy Name: Clinical Curriculum Committee

Consists of core faculty members and is chaired by the director of clinical education/clinical coordinator.

The duties of the clinical curriculum committee are as follows:

• Review clinical year policies and procedures.
• Ensure that supervised clinical practice experiences (SCPEs) enable all students to meet the program’s learning outcomes for preventive, emergent, acute, and chronic patient encounters.
• Ensure that SCPEs enable all students to meet the program’s learning outcomes across the life span, to include infants, children, adolescents, adults, and the elderly.
• Ensure that SCPEs enable all students to meet the program’s learning outcomes for women’s health (to include prenatal and gynecologic care).
• Ensure that SCPEs enable all students to meet the program’s learning outcomes for conditions requiring surgical management, including pre- operative, intra-operative, post-operative care.
• Ensure that SCPEs enable all students to meet the program’s learning outcomes for behavioral and mental health conditions.
• Conduct strategic planning and implementation of clinical site development.
• Operationalize clinical site review strategies.
• Troubleshoot clinical student concerns and issues.
• Tabulate and prepare clinical year-related data and transmission to the data analytic committee.
• Decide placement of students into clinical sites.
• Conduct appropriate public relations activity to promote the PA profession.
• Study best practices related to PA clinical education.
• Develop in-line with the NCCPA Content Blueprint the clinical year summative examination.