School of Physician Assistant Studies
Our Mission
The mission of the Physician Assistant Program is to prepare students to provide quality care for a diverse population in a changing healthcare environment through an education based in primary care medicine with a focus on critical thinking.
Our global perspective on healthcare is supported by our focus on community based practice and international education. We embrace the role of the physician assistant in an interdisciplinary team, and are committed to the advancement of the profession by participating in professional, legislative and community activities.
Values
The faculty, staff, students, and alumni of the Physician Assistant Studies Program:
- Advocate for the highest quality of care for all patients
- Support the patient's right to participate in all healthcare decisions
- Value the diversity of all cultures, people and lifestyles
- Respect the social, emotional and spiritual needs of the patient
- Promote the multidisciplinary approach to achieving healthcare equity within communities
- Honor professionalism through respectful interactions
- Encourage lifelong learning through the application of evidence based concepts
- Maintain the commitment to self-awareness and well being
Programs
The School of Physician Assistant Studies currently offers an entry level Physician Assistant Professional Program and a Post Graduate Residency Program in Rural Trauma and Hospital Care. For more information about these programs please use the links below.
Physician Assistant Professional Program
The Physician Assistant program is 27 months in length over seven consecutive semesters and grants a Master's of Science Degree in Physician Assistant Studies. The program emphasizes problem-based learning, small group sessions, diversity awareness, evidence based health care, integration of computer technology and the use of the internet in the educational process.
In addition, students participate in community service projects that include staffing of a free clinic and sponsoring a community health fair on Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Clinical sites are located throughout the United States but students have the option of selecting an international Clinical elective in many countries of the world including, but not limited to, Mexico, Ecuador, China and Kenya.
Rural Trauma and Hospital Care (RTHC)
Post Graduate Residency Program
The RTHC Residency Program is an intense two year on-site
residency designed to train graduate physician assistants in
trauma, surgery and hospital care to provide care to patients
in an in-patient environment with a focus on the rural hospital
setting. The program builds upon the primary care PA training
and clinical experience of the residents in the program.
Graduates of the program are expected to be employed by
Medical Centers in both urban and rural areas to augment the
surgical, emergency and critical care needs of those
communities.
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