Becoming a physician assistant demands a commitment to providing medical care to people at their most vulnerable, humility as an interdependent team member, and thousands of hours dedicated to study. These ingredients combine to create a medical professional who diagnoses illness, creates and implements treatment plans, and prescribes medications while practicing in every medical and surgical specialty in every state in the US.
The Department of Physician Assistant education provides a dynamic curriculum designed to promote service as a manifestation of faith and patient care as a ministry. The department is committed to the transformation of medical care through competent physician assistants able to provide equitable, team-based patient care. To that end, the faculty model professional service, collaboration, and leadership locally, nationally, and internationally.
Department of Physician Assistant Education Programs
An education as a physician assistant cultivates critical-thinking, problem solving and clinical skills, for a career as the best clinician you can be while ministering to the patient and family. As a physician assistant, you have the opportunity to pursue your passion and express your vocation in any clinical setting.
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Our faculty serve as both teachers and mentors, committed to guiding you toward a full and purposeful education. By helping you explore thought-provoking and influential ideas and engage complex and difficult questions, you'll have access to an environment devoted to the pursuit of truth. An education at ¹ú²ú¾çÂ鶹¾ç is both transformative and meaningful.
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