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CHA/PA Program
Clinical Services
The CHA/PA is a primary care physician assistant with specialized education in the care of infants, children, and adolescents. Although the program retains an emphasis on pediatrics, the Program's primary care curriculum prepares students to evaluate, diagnose, and treat patients of all ages. The CHA/PA Program at UCD has evolved to meet the needs of Colorado's population, and today's graduates provide comprehensive medical care to patients of all ages in a variety of settings, practicing under the rules of the Colorado Board of Medical Examiners. Integration of clinical experience throughout the three-year curriculum has been an integral part of the CHA/PA Program since its inception. Graduates are employed in many settings including managed care organizations, community health centers, private physician offices, public health agencies, hospitals, school-based adolescent clinics, emergency departments, and rural and inner city delivery sites.
Subspecialty areas of practice include orthopedics, surgery, emergency medicine, urgent care, otolaryngology, allergy and asthma, neurology, neonatology, and child protection and advocacy.
For 40 years, CHA/PAs have functioned as colleagues of physicians and other allied health professionals, providing comprehensive health services, including not only the evaluation and treatment of medical disease, but also patient education and counseling, anticipatory guidance and management of behavioral, psychosocial, and developmental disorders.
Further information is available at the CHA/PA Program Web site:
http://www.uchsc.edu/chapa/
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