Abstract
INTRODUCTION The Department of Physician Assistant Studies at Wake Forest University School of Medicine is a graduate-level program that has a history of curricular innovation using clinical problem-based learning (PBL) strategies that emphasize a small-group approach to learning. Graduates of the program complete a 24-month course of study, and one class of 48 students is enrolled in early June each year. In the spring of 2007, just prior to the clinical year for the students in the class of 2008, the Northwest Area Health Education Center assisted the PA faculty in revising the AHEC’s Community Plunge program, developed initially for primary care interns, for PA students. The faculty felt that the Community Plunge experience would enhance the PA program’s current efforts, which include digitally delivered PowerPoint cases and master’s projects, by providing direct interaction with various community organizations that serve the diverse needs of our community and its members. Such exposure can stimulate ideas and discussion to enrich the clinical expertise and cultural competence of the PA students and aid them in their understanding of patient perspective. The goals of the Community Plunge were:
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