The PA program is divided into two major parts: 13 months of classroom study and 12 months of clinical experience. The first 12 months are spent in the classroom and the next 12 months in the clinic. You then return to the classroom for the last month and present your graduate project (see details below). The classroom portion of the curriculum is based on a problem-oriented approach to the patient. Classroom study is divided into five blocks.

The didactic curriculum is designed to meet the needs of students who will be working with physicians in primary care and medical specialties and will be enhanced by course work in Ethics, Health Systems, Epidemiological Principles, Research and a Graduate Project. The 25-month interdisciplinary program, which begins each June, stresses the interrelationships of various functions and organs of the body and heightens the student awareness of the unique social, psychological and medical needs of each patient.

The following courses are required of all physician assistant students. Generally, this sequence will be followed, although the faculty reserves the right to make modifications in title, content, order or length of teaching time. Lecturers are diverse ranging from in-house faculty to outside adjunct clinical faculty.

First-year didactic curriculum

Second-year clinical curriculum

25th Month