Program Goals

These are the goals of the Physician Assistant Program:

• Successfully educate competent and compassionate health care providers who work collaboratively with physicians to educate, evaluate and treat members of their community
• Provide a strong and rich didactic curriculum that prepares the physician assistant student for the clinical practice of medicine
• Provide clinically relevant preceptorships that offer physician assistant students the opportunity to practice medicine in a supervised setting
• Promote critical interpretation of applied professional research as well as utilization of evidence based medical literature to formulate patient management plans.
• Foster a commitment to continuous learning
• Encourage and provide community service to further exemplify the integral role that physician assistants demonstrate in the health care setting