PA-612 · Physician Assistant

PA-612 Clinical Clerkship - Internal Medicine sample papers, week by week

Reviewed by Nell Harrington, MSN, RN Clinical Clerkship - Internal Medicine Chamberlain University Free custom samples in 24–48h

PA-612 is the clerkship measured in days rather than in visits. Model admission documents, rounds scripts, overnight summaries and hospital course narratives show how an internal medicine service grades writing that has to stay true while the patient is still in the bed.

How this shelf works

Send the exact assignment or rubric from your classroom and a custom sample written to it lands in 24 to 48 hours, the first one free. PA-612 is Chamberlain’s Clinical Clerkship - Internal Medicine course. It centers on the clerkship where one patient stays for days and the paperwork has to carry the whole stay. Searches like "pa 612 week 4 assignment example", "PA612 sample paper", and "PA-612 week samples" land on this page.

What PA-612 is really about

Internal medicine hands you a patient and then keeps them. The admission document is written once, at length, and everything afterward is measured against it, so an omission on the first day is still costing points on the fifth. What accumulates is the problem list. Somebody admitted for one thing acquires a second by the third morning and a third by the weekend, and the list is expected to show that growth with each item dated, owned and either open or resolved. Nothing on this service is quick. The writing is graded on whether it stayed accurate while the situation underneath it kept moving.

Speech and paper are marked together here. Rounds want one patient delivered aloud in a fixed order inside a fixed number of minutes, and the written update behind it has to agree with what was said. Nights carry their own document, because a team that was not in the building reads the overnight account before anything else. At the end the stay is compressed into a single narrative for whoever picks the patient up outside the hospital. All of it happens on a Chamberlain schedule, with weeks opening in the classroom, discussions carrying points, and every note produced under a supervising clinician.

What PA-612’s assessments ask for

Written work here is cumulative. The session usually opens with a full admission document on one patient, sectioned as your site requires and long enough that later assignments can be checked against it. A rounds piece follows, handed in as a script or delivered live depending on the section, held to a stated length and marked on order before completeness. Overnight work arrives midway: what happened between two teams, why it mattered, and what the morning has to decide because of it. Later weeks want the problem list explained rather than printed, a long conversation about what the patient wants recorded for the next clinician, the stay compressed into one narrative, and the checklist a leaving day turns on. Discussions run every week.

Where students lose points in PA-612

The admission document loses marks for breadth without order: everything recorded, nothing ranked, and no sentence naming which problem is driving the stay. The rounds piece loses them for length, since a version running past its stated minutes is marked down before its content is weighed at all. Overnight writing fails when it reports events without saying what changed because of them. The problem list is where most points go missing, usually because items sit open long after they resolved, or a new one appears with no date and nobody attached. Leaving-day work fails when it repeats the admission document instead of summarizing what happened in between, which is the only part a receiving clinician reads.

PA-612 grading scale at Chamberlain: how the work is graded, from Chamberlain Assignments
How Chamberlain grades PA-612, visualized by Chamberlain Assignments.

The PA-612 drawers

Week 1

PA-612 Week 1 discussion post example

Week 1 often asks what changes when the same patient is still there tomorrow morning. On request, free, 24-48h.

See the example →
Week 2

PA-612 Week 2 admission history and physical example

The long document written at the front of a stay, sectioned the way your site requires. On request, free, 24-48h.

See the example →
Week 3

PA-612 Week 3 attending rounds presentation example

One patient delivered aloud in a fixed order and inside a stated number of minutes. On request, free, 24-48h.

See the example →
Week 4

PA-612 Week 4 overnight event summary example

What happened between two teams, written for the people who were not in the building. On request, free, 24-48h.

See the example →
Week 5

PA-612 Week 5 problem list expansion memo example

Every item dated and owned, with the ones added since admission argued rather than appended. On request, free, 24-48h.

See the example →
Week 6

PA-612 Week 6 goals of care summary example

A long conversation recorded so the next clinician knows what was decided and by whom. On request, free, 24-48h.

See the example →
Week 7

PA-612 Week 7 hospital course summary example

Several days compressed into one narrative carrying what a reader outside the hospital needs. On request, free, 24-48h.

See the example →
Week 8

PA-612 Week 8 day of discharge checklist example

The items a leaving day turns on, each with the person responsible for it named. On request, free, 24-48h.

See the example →
Different?

Your classroom shows something else?

Chamberlain University revises courses; week counts and deliverables shift between terms. Send what your classroom shows and the desk matches it exactly.

Send it over →

Using a PA-612 sample the right way

Use an example for its order. The value of a finished admission document is that you can see which section a reader reaches first and how much room the assessment gets against everything around it. In the rounds script, count the sentences before the patient is identified and before the reason for admission arrives, because that ratio carries the row. For the course narrative, watch what gets dropped, since a strong one is shorter than the notes behind it. Every patient in a sample is constructed for the assignment, and the ones on your service stay yours to write about.

How these samples are written

Method, in one line: rubric first, structure from the rubric, templates exact, discussions final on arrival. Week counts vary by course version; the catch-all row absorbs the difference. Your free request matches what your classroom actually shows.

PA-612 questions, answered

How long is the admission document supposed to be?

Whatever your site's template makes it. Sections differ on how much of the review of systems is expected and on whether the assessment carries every problem or only the open ones, and a sample built to the wrong template reads as padded or as thin. Send the template along with the week's instructions and the example arrives at the right size.

The rounds piece is delivered aloud. Is a written example any use?

It is the part most students skip and then lose marks on. What a script shows is the order and the cuts: where the reason for admission lands, and what a strong version drops to stay inside the minutes it was given. Sections grading the delivery live still mark that sequence, so the document is worth having in front of you.

My patient is still admitted and the course narrative is due.

That is the usual case and the assignment expects it. A course summary written mid-stay is marked on what has happened so far and on what remains open, with the open items named rather than left out of the page. An example built that way finishes on the unresolved list instead of on a departure, which is what the row looks for.