Physician assistant program prerequisites

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The course can be in any major and does not need to be an English-major based course. Additionally, if completion of a bachelor's degree incorporates writing across the curriculum, please share this information with the admissions committee. For admission consideration, a candidate should have hours of health care experience paid or volunteer. These hours can be in progress or planned during the application cycle, and you can update the program directly to add hours accrued after initial submission of the CASPA and secondary application.

Hours must be completed by the time a candidate would matriculate into the program. While our program is flexible in accepting a wide variety of hours to help satisfy the hour requirement, hours as a personal trainer or lifeguard are unacceptable. The technical standards for Penn State College of Medicine's Physician Assistant Program have been established to ensure than students have the ability to demonstrate academic mastery, competence when performing clinical skills, and ability to communicate clinical information.

Learn more about our technical standards. Physician Assistant PA Program. Select a Topic. Courses taken for a certificate must be pre-approved and will be reviewed on a case by case basis and proof of completion will be required if the course is accepted. The PA Program will require a letter from your professor stating that the lab started on-ground and outlining the content delivered remotely.

This will be reviewed on an individual basis. For summer and fall as well as spring , the PA program will accept online prerequisites, including labs. The PA Program will require a letter from your professor outlining the content delivered remotely as well as a copy of the course syllabus. For summer and fall , the PA program will accept online prerequisites on a case-by-case basis only.

General Chemistry: Two courses with a minimum of 1 lab. Total of 8 semester units or 12 quarter units. Should be a course sequence designed for chemistry majors. Biological Sciences: Two courses with a minimum of 1 lab. Total of 6 semester or 9 quarter units. Should be a course sequence designed for biology majors. Human Anatomy: One course with lab is required. Human Physiology: One course is required. Lab recommended, but not required. Microbiology: One course is required. Total of 3 semester units or 4 quarter units.