Summative Assessment: Summative OSCE stations built around a new-patient interview and a patient-education/shared-decision-making encounter, scored with standardized communication and professionalism rubrics. C3 - Clinical Skills Competency: Graduates will perform accurate history-taking, physical examination, and clinical assessment, and formulate an appropriate differential diagnosis and management plan. Summative Assessment: Summative OSCE stations built around a focused clinical assessment and an acute/complex patient encounter, scored with standardized rubrics/checklists. C4 - Technical Skills Competency: Graduates will safely and competently perform the technical and procedural skills required for entry-level PA practice. Summative Assessment: Direct observation or simulation-based technical skills stations, scored using standardized procedure checklists. C5 - Professional Behaviors Competency: Graduates will demonstrate the ethical conduct, accountability, and professional behavior expected of an entry-level physician assistant. Summative Assessment: A structured Summative Professional Behaviors rubric, administered independently of the written examination and OSCE, and incorporated into the OSCE counseling/shared-decision-making station. C6 - Clinical Reasoning and Problem-Solving Competency: Graduates will apply clinical reasoning and evidence-based problem-solving to patient care decisions. Summative Assessment: Case-based items embedded in the summative written examination, together with clinical-reasoning components of the OSCE stations. Overall Student Summative Determination Each student receives an individual B4.03 Summative Competency Record documenting whether the Written Exam, OSCE/Skills assessment, and/or Professional Assessment components applicable to each competency (C1– C6) were met, resulting in a final determination of Meets or Does Not Yet Meet for each competency.
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