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Apply to Drexel Find our undergraduate, graduate, and professional applications. The physician assistant PA is a primary health care provider who, when graduated from an accredited program and national certified and state-licensed, is eligible to practice medicine with the legal supervision of a physician. PAs perform many duties including, but not limited to, physical examinations, diagnosis and treatment of illnesses, ordering and interpretation of lab tests, assist in surgery, perform procedures, perform hospital rounds, prescribe medicines, and provide patient education.
For more information about this program, contact: paadmissions drexel. Applications made directly to the Office of Enrollment Management Admissions of Drexel University will not be processed. Ensure that all hours are accurately reported. Applicants may list the same position in multiple sections in order to account for multiple experiences patient contact, related health care, research, shadowing, etc.
Please review the "Patient Contact" PDF below for more information regarding acceptable forms of patient contact. For more details about the application process, visit the Physician Assistant Program's Admissions webpage. The intensive curriculum consists of professionally related coursework taken during a continuous period the part-time option requires an additional calendar year and gives students an understanding of both the health care system within which they will work and the functions appropriate to the role of the physician assistant.
The curriculum is divided into a full year of didactic courses followed by an additional 15 months of supervised clinical practice. Training begins with four quarters of didactic education which integrates patient interaction throughout. The clinical training phase consists of six 6 five-credit, five week clinical rotations in medicine, surgery, women's health, pediatrics, emergency medicine, and psychiatry. The clinical phase of the curriculum is completed on a full-time basis for both full and part-time students.
The final portion of the curriculum consists of two, During the preceptorship phase, each student is assigned to two primary care sites for individualized clinical training with physician preceptors. Training sites during the clinical year are located throughout Pennsylvania and in other states. Students are expected to relocate during the clinical phase and are responsible for all associated financial costs, including transportation and living expenses.
The program is intensely challenging, both intellectually and physically, and requires stamina as well as personal and financial sacrifice on the part of the students. The program demands a high degree of integrity, self-sufficiency, motivation, and self-discipline, and highly developed study skills.
The Physician Assistant program utilizes electronic documentation and communications; therefore, all students are required to have laptop computers with Web access capability. Contact the Physician Assistant Program for more information on the sequencing for the part-time option. The sequencing of the six clinical rotations will vary for individual students, but all students must complete all six rotations.
In order to graduate, all students must pass three writing-intensive courses after their freshman year.
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