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Policies
100
True or False: When in a virtual meeting/class, and unless receiving prior permission from the course director/presenter, students must have their video cameras on and be visible for the entirety of the meeting just as if they were attending an on-campus class session
True
100
Which maneuver is commonly used to diagnose and treat benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV)?
What is the Dix-Hallpike maneuver ?
100
Which murmur is described as a harsh systolic crescendo-decrescendo sound best heard at the right upper sternal border and radiating to the carotids?
What is aortic stenosis?
100
True or False. The didactic summative examination is a requirement to move on to the clinical year?
What is true?
100
True or false.
Any student scoring between 76% and 82% at weeks 5 or 10 in the trimester is referred to Student Progress Committee by the Course Director to improve academic performance and identify study skill opportunities
False--> At Risk Committee
200
True or false: This is appropriate attire for the PA program
False
students in the program may not wear the following: No flip flops - sandals are allowed if there is a heel strap (if involved in lab activities) No shorts No midriff tops No tank tops or sleeveless shirts No hats/caps worn indoors o Additional inappropriate attire includes: Clothing inappropriate for the activity/setting Clothing or lack of clothing that is, as determined by faculty, staff, and clinical preceptors to be too-revealing, too-tight, too-transparent Open-toed shoes when in a clinical, lab, or research environment Other attire that is deemed inappropriate by principal faculty and/or instructional faculty (e.g., preceptors).
200
Deficiency of which vitamin causes scurvy, characterized by bleeding gums, petechiae, and poor wound healing?
What is Vitamin C? or ascorbic acid
200
Drug-induced gingival hyperplasia (or overgrowth) is primarily caused by three classes of medications:
What are anticonvulsants, calcium channel blockers, and immunosuppressants?
200
In the third trimester and beyond, students will be allotted how many seconds per question?
What is 60 seconds?
200
What is the maximum timeframe to complete this program?
What is at 150%? or aka 3 years total
300
True or False:
Approved program absences do not remove absences recorded by the university for which university policies apply, but they do allow for work to be made-up.
True
300
A child presents with a honey-colored crusted rash around the mouth. What is the most likely diagnosis?
What is impetigo? commonly caused by Staphylococcus aureus or Streptococcus pyogenes
300
Which lung cancer type is most strongly associated with paraneoplastic SIADH?
What is small cell?
300
True or false. The didactic summative exam is pass/fail with pass being >80%
It is a pass/fail but pass is 76 or above.
300
True or false. The program offers deceleration?
What is false?
400
One (1) exam failure in one course will be addressed by whom?
Who are the course directors and advisors?
400
A patient presents with fatigue, glossitis, and macrocytic anemia. What two vitamin deficiencies are most commonly responsible?
What are vitamin b12 and folate?
400
What is the most common cause of transudative pleural effusion?
What is CHF?
400
True or false. You can remediate the didactic summative exam.
Yes, assuming you have not remediated already twice in the PA570
400
What states can a PA student apply to WCU from?
West Coast University’s hybrid Physician Assistant program currently only accepts applicants who reside in the following states: Arizona, California, Florida, Hawaii, South Dakota, Texas, and Vermont.
500
Three (3) failures (in different courses) is addressed by who?
Who is the student progression committee?
500
Which organism is classically associated with “currant jelly” sputum and lobar pneumonia in alcoholics?
What is klebsiella?
500
Which condition is characterized by noncaseating granulomas and bilateral hilar lymphadenopathy?
What is sarcoid?
500
True or false. The didactic summative exam is just on PA510, PA540, and PA570.
False- the whole didactic curriculum
500
Where can a student find out the withdrawal dates from the program?
What is the WCU academic calendar website?