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School of Physician Assistant Studies

Become a Physician Assistant

Physician assistants have become an integral part of the healthcare landscape since the first official PA training began in 1967. Pacific’s Master of Science in Physician Assistant Studies is the perfect place to take your passion for healthcare and turn it into a rewarding career.

Become a Physician Assistant

Become a Preceptor

A clinical preceptor is a vital part of the School of PA Studies’ teaching team. Preceptors supervise, mentor, observe, and provide feedback for PA students as they further develop their clinical reasoning and technical skills.

Become a Preceptor

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Mission

Our program is committed to cultivating equity in healthcare by fostering diversity within our cohorts, including underrepresented students in medicine. Through enhanced training opportunities, our students gain skills needed to better serve diverse and underserved populations. Our Â鶹ӰÊÓs emerge from the program well prepared to deliver compassionate, culturally responsive, and clinically-competent patient care.

Core Values

Leadership:  

  • Advocate for the highest quality care for all patients
  • Exemplify competence, compassion, and respect
  • Champion patient autonomy and access to care
  • Advance the PA profession through participation in professional, legislative, and community outreach activities

Excellence:  

  • Teach and practice high quality evidence-based healthcare
  • Foster a culture of peer-mentoring and relationship building
  • Encourage lifelong learning, self-awareness and well-being
  • Promote an interprofessional team approach that improves healthcare resource equity and patient outcomes

Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion:  

  • Embrace diversity and respect individual expression in all its forms
  • Practice and teach culturally responsive healthcare
  • Work to address the impacts of social determinants of health on patients
  • Further equitable access to PA education

Vision

Together, we strive to create a more equitable and inclusive future for medicine.

School Goals

  1. Foster diversity within our cohorts.
  2. Offer enhanced training opportunities for students to gain skills needed to better serve diverse and underserved populations.
  3. Graduate students who are well prepared to deliver compassionate, culturally responsive and clinically-competent patient care.
Accreditation

The Â鶹ӰÊÓ School of PA Studies is accredited by the Accreditation Review Commission on Education for the Physician Assistant (ARC-PA). It has earned accreditation-continued status, with the next validation review expected in June 2027. Graduates are eligible to take the National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants (NCCPA) Physician Assistant National Certification Examination (PANCE). Accreditation information can be found here.

This program meets the educational requirements for licensure or certification in these U.S. states and territories. View additional student data and program results. Student learning outcomes and additional curriculum information is available in the .