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CHA/PA Program
Research Overview and Faculty Research Interests
The Physician Assistant faculty has received local and national grants for research and development of physician assistant education. This funding has focused on the creation and implementation of innovative teaching strategies, including the use of technology.
In recent years, projects have included:
- Use of standardized patients to longitudinally evaluate student knowledge and skill development over three years;
- Development and evaluation of an evidence-based Master's curriculum;
- Development of a community-based adolescent health education learning initiative to enhance recruitment of minority, disadvantaged, and rural students;
- Development, implementation, and evaluation of a curriculum in primary care for adjudicated adolescents;
- Implementation of an enhanced rural track through additional linkages in a rural, underserved area in southwestern Colorado;
- Implementation and evaluation of online problem-based learning and evidenced-based medicine curricula through the development of a cross-cultural case of adolescent obesity; and
- Development, implementation, and evaluation of a new web-based assessment tool and test bank.
Objectives for currently funded projects include:
- Enhanced recruitment of minority and disadvantaged students through the development of a community-based, health promotion/disease prevention and service/learning initiative, targeting middle-school-age children;
- Increased PA student competency in geriatric medicine through the design, implementation, and evaluation of an enhanced didactic and clinical curriculum in long-term and palliative care; and
- Enhanced cultural competency through the design, implementation, and evaluation of a curriculum addressing the role of spirituality and religion in patient care.
Anita Glicken, MSW, is interested in curriculum and faculty development, evidence-based medicine, psychosocial aspects of health care, interprofessional practice, and assessment. Jonathan Bowser, MS, CHA/PA-C, is focused on family medicine and curriculum and assessment development. Sandra Hoops, MS, CHA/PA-C, centers her research on childhood diabetes and standardized patient assessment. Rebecca Maldonado, MS, PA-C, evaluates curriculum development, physician assistant education research, and ambulatory pediatrics. Joyce Nieman, MHS, CHA/PA-C, is interested in adolescent medicine and physician assistant clinical education. Christina Robohm, MS, CHA/PA-C, evaluates ambulatory general pediatrics, admissions and recruitment, and diversity. Cathleen Ruff, MS, CHA/PA-C, has research interests in pediatric allergy and asthma, service learning, and rural medicine. Kyle Tick, LSW, is interested in psychosocial medicine.
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