The Clinical Skills & Physical Diagnosis Lab I course provides students with hands-on training in essential physical examination techniques and core clinical procedures routinely performed by physician assistants. Emphasizing a systems-based approach, students will develop competence in conducting comprehensive and focused medical exams, including inspection, palpation, percussion, and auscultation. In addition, students will learn and practice a variety of procedural skills. This course fosters the integration of clinical reasoning, patient communication, and professionalism while ensuring students meet the technical proficiency expected in clinical rotations and future practice. Through a combination of demonstration, simulation, peer practice, and faculty-guided instruction, students will gain confidence and accuracy in clinical performance. Skills covered include, but are not limited to, sterile technique, suturing, injections, venipuncture, splinting and casting and other diagnostic and therapeutic procedures. By the end of the course, students will be prepared to integrate these skills into clinical rotations and future practice.