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Master of Physician Assistant
The Physician Assistant Program consists of acceptance into the program and completion of all required professional-level courses. Graduates of the program are eligible to sit for the Physician Assistant National Certifying Examination.
Tne next MPA class will matriculate in January of 2011. Applications now being accepted through the Centralized Application Service for Physician Aassistant (CASPA).
Physician assistants are health care professionals licensed to practice medicine with physician supervision. As part of their comprehensive responsibilities, PAs conduct physical exams, diagnose and treat illnesses, order and interpret tests, counsel on preventive health care, assist in surgery and can write prescriptions in all 50 states. Within the physician-PA relationship, physician assistants exercise autonomy in medical decision making and provide a broad range of diagnostic and therapeutic services. A PA's practice may also include education, research and administrative services.
Because of the close working relationship the PAs have with physicians, PAs are educated in the medical model. Upon graduation, physician assistants take a national certification examination developed by the National Commission on Certification of PAs in conjunction with the National Board of Medical Examiners. To maintain their national certification, PAs must log 100 hours of continuing medical education every two years and sit for a recertification every six years. Graduation from an accredited physician assistant program and passage of the national certifying exam are required for state licensure.
Our program has full accreditation awarded by Accreditation Review Commission on Education for the Physician Assistant, Inc (ARC-PA) since 2000.
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