First Year - Semester 1 (September to December)
*Organization of courses may change year to year*
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PAEP 7010 - Human Anatomy for Physician Assistants This course is taken with Pharmacy, Respiratory Therapist, and graduate students. Lecturers are mostly basic science researchers and educators. Exams for multiple choice. PAEP 7052 - Patient Assessment for Physician Assistants Students learn how to take a general patient history and physical: taking vitals (blood pressure, pulse, respiratory rate, oxygen saturation), head/eyes/ears/nose, thyroid, cardiac, pulmonary, gastrointestinal and genito-urinary, neurological, dermatologic, musculoskeletal. Exams are called Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) with similar structure to MMI, but the content involves patient simulations where students must take a patient history and physical. In 1st semester, students begin learning a general patient history and physical as well as documentation. |
PHAC 7230 - Fundamentals in Pharmacology for Health Care I
This course under the Department of Pharmacy is taken with Pharmacy students and graduate students. The lecturers are mostly pharmacological researchers. Exams are multiple choice.
PAEP 7000 - Physiology for Physician Assistants
This course is taught mostly by basic science researchers and educators. Exams are mostly multiple choice with some short answer.
PAEP 7030 - Professional Studies for Physician Assistans
Taught by the Program Director, this course teaches the history, values and processes for certification and maintaining certification in the PA profession. At the end of the semester, the class is divided into teams, then assigned to argue "for" or "against" topics in healthcare. Students are graded on an essay and an exam with short/long answers.
Curriculum Integration
These sessions do not have course credits or exams. They are lectured by MPAS Staff in order to supplement and re-enforce the learning from the other courses.
Health and Wellness
These sessions do not have course credits or exams.A few sessions throughout the semester led by Health and Wellness Counselors who provide techniques for sleep hygiene, managing performance stress, and dealing with work conflicts.
Interprofessional Collaborative Care (IPCC)
This course has no credits; it is pass/fail. Students are divided into cohort groups that includes Medicine, Pharmacy, Dentistry and Dental Hygiene, Physiotherapy, Occupational Therapy, and Nursing students. It involves one meeting at the beginning of the semester to introduce the course, followed by several online discussions and assignments leading up to a final project throughout the semester. The goal of the course is to explore Social Determinants of Health, interprofessional collaboration, and Winnipeg communities.
First Year - Semester 2 (January to April)
*Organization of courses may change year to year*
PAEP 7068 - Adult Medicine for Physician Assistants I
This course provides the fundamental information and concepts in medicine. The lecturers are physicians trained in the area of the lecture. For example, a cardiologist will teach the lecture on cardiac arrhythmia. Exams are multiple choice.
PAEP 7110 - Emergency and Critical Care for Physician Assistants
This course is lectured by emergency and critical care physicians. Exams are multiple choice.
PAEP 7054 - Patient Assessment for Physician Assistants II
This course is in continuation with 1st semester. OSCE's require a more focused patient history and physical for simulated patients with medical complaints, followed by differential diagnoses and documentation.
PHAC 7240 - Fundamentals in Pharmacology for Health Care II
This course is in continuation with 1st semester.
PAEP 7002 - Physiology for Physician Assistants II
This course is in continuation with 1st semester.
PAEP 7090 - Psychiatry for Physician Assistants
This course is coordinated and lectured by psychiatrists. Students are graded on a paper and multiple choice exams.
Early Exposure
These shifts do not have credits or exams.
- Each weeks, students are assigned to a physician or PA to shadow in a clinical setting with the opportunity to observe and perform medical and surgical procedures, as well as interact with patients all under supervision. These shifts are 3 to 5 hours per week. Settings include: family medicine, community medicine, cardiology, cardiac surgery, plastic surgery, general surgery, trauma surgery, emergency/urgency medicine, pediatric medicine, internal medicine.
- Students also have the opportunity to be scheduled for autopsy observation during one of these shifts in a small group.
- One week, the students will observe a case presentation session facilitated by a physician.
- Another week, students will be assigned a patient in the hospital to take a patient history and perform a physical exam. The next day, the students will present their patient case in front of the physician facilitating the session. This session is meant to be a learning process with feedback from physicians. After the case presentations, physicians often bring the students back to the same patient for teaching.
Curriculum Integration
These sessions do not have course credits or exams. They are lectured by MPAS Staff in order to supplement and re-enforce the learning from the other courses.
Interprofessional Collaborative Care (IPCC)
This course is in continuation with first semester with the same format of online discussions, assignments and final project.
First Year - Semester 3 (May to July)
*Organization of courses may change year to year*
PAEP 7078 - Adult Medicine for Physician Assistants II
This course in continuation with 2nd semester.
PAEP 7082 - Diagnostic Imaging for Physician Assistants
This course is done through online tutorials with quizzes every other week. Quizzes and exam are multiple choice.
PAEP 7046 - Genetics and Clinical Genetics for Physician Assistants
This course is taught by genetic counsellors. Exam is multiple choice.
PAEP 7084 - Microbiology for Physician Assistants
This course is taught by Infectious Disease physicians following the flipped classroom format where students work on a quiz before the class by researching the answers, then the quiz answers are discussed in class. There is very little lecturing in this format. Exams are take-home.
PAEP 7056 - Patient Assessment for Physician Assistants III
This course is in continuation with 2nd semester.
PAEP 7048 - Pediatrics for Physician Assistants
This course is mainly lectured by pediatric PAs and pediatricians.
PAEP 7050 - Obstetrics and Gynecology
This course is taught by PAs and OBS/GYN physicians. This course follows the flipped classroom format where students work on an assignment before the class by researching the answers, then the assignment answers are discussed in class. Course is mainly graded on an assignment, and multiple choice quizzes and exam.
PAEP 7045 - Research and Clinical Practice for Physician Assistants
This course is taught by researchers and statisticians. Students are graded on assignments.
PAEP 7100 - General Surgery for Physician Assistants
This course is a mix of lecture followed by case-based learning in discussion groups. Lecturers are mainly surgeons, while facilitators of the discussion groups are PAs, surgeons and MPAS staff. Students are provided the cases before class and research the answers on their own. Students then discuss their research as a group, while facilitators guide the discussion. Quizzes and exams are multiple choice.
Procedures Laboratory
This course does not have credits or exams. Student learn common medical and surgical procedures and techniques such as wound care (sutures).
Curriculum Integration
These sessions do not have course credits or exams. They are lectured by MPAS Staff in order to supplement and re-enforce the learning from the other courses.
Early Exposure
These shifts are in continuation with 2nd semester.
Second Year
Capstone Research Project
Research project of your choosing conducted mostly in second year. You may find your own mentor to help guide your research or the program can help set you up with one. A proposal, written report, and presentation are required in second year. Depending on your type of research, ethics approval through the University of Manitoba and other institutions may be required.
To read research projects from previous MPAS students, visit University of Manitoba's Libraries Mspace.
Last updated: July 1, 2021
Research project of your choosing conducted mostly in second year. You may find your own mentor to help guide your research or the program can help set you up with one. A proposal, written report, and presentation are required in second year. Depending on your type of research, ethics approval through the University of Manitoba and other institutions may be required.
To read research projects from previous MPAS students, visit University of Manitoba's Libraries Mspace.
- You can simply search "Physician Assistant"
- Select "College of Medicine - Master of Physician Assistant Studies Capstone Projects"
- Select "Faculty of Health Sciences"
- Select "College of Medicine - Master of Physician Assistant Studies Capstone Projects"
Last updated: July 1, 2021