This is an entry level course designed to provide the student with a logical and systematic approach to clinical reasoning and patient interaction skills. The process of clinical reasoning involves multiple steps beginning with understanding the PA’s role in the current healthcare system. From there the components of the clinical encounter. This would include history gathering, patient interview, generating hypotheses for the patient’s problem, testing the hypotheses, working diagnosis, planning the diagnostic and treatment strategy and record keeping. Progressing forward the students learning experience will include patient general inspection, common and concerning symptoms, vital signs, and an introduction to the dermatologic and musculoskeletal exams.