Spring 2027

Physician Assistant Preceptorship: Family Medicine

A comprehensive clinical preceptorship in a family medicine setting where students perform patient encounters and clinical procedures.

offering recorded6 credits
Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 Melissa Delaney

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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 3.77 GPA, 90.9% A/AB (n=11 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.85 GPA, 97.3% A/AB (n=37 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.81 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=16 letter grades).

What you’ll be able to do

  • Identify the clinical presentations and manifestations of common conditions encountered in family medicine patients across the following age groups: infant, child, adolescent, adult, and elderly.

  • Obtain a complete medical history.

  • Perform a physical examination or the following types of patient encounters: well-infant, well-child, well-adolescent, prenatal, adult preventative, GYN-focused, acute problem-focused, and chronic problem-focused encounters.

  • Perform the following clinical procedures: breast examination, pelvic examination, testicular examination, digital rectal examination, mental health counseling, and substance use disorder evaluation and management.

  • Interpret diagnostic/screening tests used in the evaluation of family medicine patients.

  • Recognize critical findings and abnormalities while interpreting X-rays.

  • Interpret the Patient Health Questionnaire 9.

  • Interpret the General Anxiety Disorder 7.

  • Communicate effectively with patients and their families.

  • Educate patients on topics such as prevention (immunizations, pharmacotherapeutics or lifestyle changes).

  • Formulate a differential diagnosis for conditions encountered in family medicine.

  • Implement appropriate therapeutic patient care plans.

  • Effectively engage in oral communication with members of the healthcare team, ensuring seamless coordination of patient care.

  • Display professional behavior in the medical setting as indicated in the preceptorship evaluation.

Source: UW Guide

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Prerequisites

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  • Declared in Physician Assistant program
PHYASST 739

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Professors

Spring 2027

Recent recorded grades — Fall 2025: 3.85 GPA, 97.3% A/AB (n=37 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.81 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=16 letter grades).

Historical instructors & teaching patterns

MELISSA DELANEY is recorded teaching in Fall 2025, Spring 2026. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

Calendar & sections

Spring 2027

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Student experience

the class

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 3.77 GPA, 90.9% A/AB (n=11 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.85 GPA, 97.3% A/AB (n=37 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.81 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=16 letter grades).

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Topics

  • Clinical presentations of common conditions across infant, child, adolescent, adult, and elderly age groups
  • Clinical procedures including breast, pelvic, and digital rectal examinations, and mental health counseling
  • Interpreting X-rays to recognize critical findings and abnormalities

Skills

  • Obtain a complete medical history
  • Perform physical examinations and various patient encounters including well-infant, prenatal, and chronic problem-focused visits
  • Interpret diagnostic and screening tests for family medicine patients
  • Communicate effectively with patients and their families

Grades

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PHYASST 739 · Spring 2027

Physician Assistant Preceptorship: Family Medicine

Recorded 2026-10-14
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