Barry University, FL

The Barry University Physician Assistant Program educates students in the practice of collaborative medicine and encourages life-long learning and professional development. It fosters a technology rich environment and clinical training experiences among diverse patient populations. The Program enables students to develop competencies required to meet the health care needs of contemporary society.

Christian Brothers University, TN

To educate diverse and exemplary individuals to prepare them to become caring, competent, ethical and professional physician assistants who will positively affect their patients, community, and the health care system.

College of Saint Mary, NE

Creighton University, NE

The Creighton University physician assistant program mission is to foster a tradition of excellence by transforming learners into compassionate physician assistants who are dedicated to exemplary patient care.  Rooted in our Ignatian heritage, we empower students to realize their full potential through a commitment to professional growth and service to humanity.

DeSales University, PA

The mission of the Physician Assistant Program is consistent with the enduring Christian Humanistic traditions of DeSales University and seeks to graduate physician assistants who dedicate themselves to the total well-being of the patient.  Graduates of the Program will deliver competent and compassionate health care including preventative services and wellness education to patients of diverse populations in a variety of settings.  They will consider the patient holistically in the context of family, community, and society, and incorporate ethical principles into a patient-focused practice.  They will serve their patients by using evidence-based medicine and promoting life-long learning in the profession.”

Dominican University, IL

The mission of the Dominican University Physician Assistant Studies program is to produce graduate level physician assistants to provide highly competent patient-centered and compassionate health care in collaboration with physicians. Our physician assistants will serve as an integral member of an inter-professional healthcare team. Our graduates will demonstrate leadership, service and lifelong learning.

Duquesne University, PA

The Program’s overall purpose is to provide the highest quality of academic and clinical training that will prepare our graduates to be certified and licensed to practice as extenders to physicians in a competent and reliable manner.

The mission of the Duquesne University Physician Assistant Studies Program is five-fold:

1. to prepare trainees with the necessary knowledge and skills to reliably perform the role of a physician assistant.
2. to promote a lifelong responsibility for ongoing learning and active participation in a changing health care environment.
3. to instill a professional identity in each student based on the education for the mind, heart and spirit that is achieved at Duquesne.
4. to prepare graduates to provide quality primary health care among rural, urban and minority populations.
5. to expand knowledge beyond primary care.

D’Youville College, NY

The mission of the D’Youville College Physician Assistant department is to prepare exemplary clinicians with the highest professional standards, who will be leaders in the PA profession.

Our graduates will be trained to serve diverse patient populations with sensitivity and compassion, coupled with an emphasis on primary care, integrative medicine and interprofessional collaboration. We are dedicated to fostering the skills necessary to generate new clinical insights based on medically relevant research.

The D’Youville College Physician Assistant graduate will be equipped with the skills and knowledge to provide comprehensive care while being an advocate for patient health and wellness promotion, enhanced by a personal philosophy of life-long learning.

Gannon University, PA

King’s College, PA

The Department of Physician Assistant Studies educates students in a primary care-based curriculum that emphasizes the mastery of knowledge, technical skills, critical thinking, and moral reasoning.  King’s Department of PA Studies fosters excellence in teaching and faculty scholarship, and forms highly competent professional healthcare providers committed to patient-centered, compassionate care, and the inherent dignity of every person.

LeMoyne College, NY

The Le Moyne College Physician Assistant Program is dedicated to the education of students to become competent, caring, compassionate, and ethical providers of primary health care services with the supervision of a licensed physician. The program seeks to instill in each individual the desire to pursue a lifelong commitment to promote excellence in the delivery of patient care through continual self-assessment and advancement of one’s medical skills and knowledge. This program prepares the student to work in a wide variety of settings under the supervision of licensed physicians, such as hospitals, private primary care facilities, nursing homes, and community centers.

Marquette University, WI

Our mission is to develop physician assistants in the Jesuit tradition who realize their full potential as excellent clinicians and national leaders. We pursue this for ad majorem Dei gloriam, the greater glory of God, and the benefit of the human community.

An ideal graduate of our program is well-rounded, clinically and intellectually competent, committed to professional growth, spiritually centered, compassionate and dedicated to doing justice in generous service to others. Our graduates will be leaders in promoting health, wellness, and preventing disease in diverse healthcare settings and in their communities.

Marywood University, PA

• The Physician Assistant Program at Marywood University is committed to providing students with an exceptional education in a supportive and nurturing environment. This professional education will include the biomedical and clinical knowledge necessary to diagnose, treat, educate, and empower patients in a variety of settings across the lifespan.
• The Program is committed to preparing the student to deal with the changing healthcare environment while promoting the PA profession.
• The Program emphasizes the importance of creating a knowledge community for future PA students to succeed while providing leadership to promote the PA profession within the community.
• The Program acknowledges that patients are more than his or her physical body; therefore, the Program is dedicated to teaching our students to appreciate the patient’s spirit in addition to caring for his or her body.
• The Program has an awareness of the need for quality healthcare, both regionally and globally, and the Program prepares each student to undertake the challenges of an ever-changing healthcare environment.

Mercyhurst University, PA

The mission of the Department of Physician Assistant Studies (DPAS) is to prepare students with the highest quality academic and clinical training. The program will prepare physician assistants to be leaders in the profession, proficient in meeting the challenges of healthcare, while providing compassionate, quality care to the diverse communities in which they serve.

The department’s mission, vision and core goals were developed to align with the University’s mission, vision and core values. Emphasis has been placed on the Mercy tradition and healthcare core values to stay true to the basic principles set forth by our founders.

Misericordia University, PA

The mission of the Misericordia University Physician Assistant program is to provide opportunities for exceptional students to acquire the highest quality cognitive education and training experience in an atmosphere of academic excellence. Graduates will achieve their maximum potential as able, caring, compassionate, competent, idealistic professionals. The program’s educational environment will promote an ethos of service, responsibility, morals and ethics, a quest for excellence, and an avid desire for self-directed lifelong learning in a spiritually enriched environment, while preparing students to apply evidence-based knowledge.

Mount Saint Joseph University, OH

The specific mission of the Physician Assistant program is to educate outstanding, compassionate clinicians, fully prepared to deliver high quality, accessible health care, demonstrating commitment to life-long learning and ethical practice.

Ohio Dominican University, OH

Our Lady of the Lake College, LA

Guided by the tradition of compassionate health care exemplified by the Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady, the Physician Assistant Program will develop graduates who will provide evidence based, patient centered medical care in diverse settings, and who are committed to serving all God’s people.

Sacred Heart University, CT

Our Mission is to provide students with engaging experiences that facilitate lifelong learning, enhance diverse perspectives, emphasize primary care and collaborative practice, and foster a spirit of service with a commitment to continuously improve the health of our communities.

Saint Francis University, PA

To educate individuals as physician assistants to provide competent, compassionate and comprehensive health care to people and communities in need, as expressed through the Franciscan tradition.

Saint Louis University, MO

Seton Hall University, NJ

The mission of the Physician Assistant Program at Seton Hall University is to prepare primary care PAs who practice in diverse settings. The program provides the foundation for graduates to become critical thinkers who practice evidence-based, patient-centered medicine.

Seton Hill University, PA

The Physician Assistant Program at Seton Hill University is dedicated to the use of mobile technology to provide students with a quality academic and clinical education. All students will be trained as effective team members.  Program emphasis is on delivering optimal care in an efficient, effective and professional manner. (Click to view Student Performance Summary Report (PDF).)The Physician Assistant Program at Seton Hill University strives to maintain a first time PANCE pass rate of 90% or greater for all students.

Saint Ambrose University, IA

The mission of the St. Ambrose University Physician Assistant Program is to prepare physician assistants to deliver high-quality patient-centered care with compassion and respect.

The program provides a supportive environment to assist students as they develop into professionals with the knowledge and skills to contribute to the health and welfare of their communities.

Saint Catherine University, MN

Saint John’s University, NY

St. John’s University is Catholic, Vincentian and Metropolitan. It is committed to the pursuit of academic excellence, religious values, ethics, professionalism and human experience.

Challenged by the belief that health care is a basic human right and driven by a similar mission, St. John’s University PA Program developed an educational program that would reach those most in need—“the poor, alienated and the aged.”

Conscious that culturally responsive healthcare is necessary to practice in diverse neighborhoods we strive to provide exceptional educational opportunities to men and women of varied races and socioeconomic backgrounds, so that our institution might continue its tradition of working as a partner with members of the local community. In this way, we will empower professionals to return to their own neighborhoods to promote preventive medicine and deliver affordable, high quality primary care.

Committed to excellence in education, we will collaborate with institutions of higher learning. By combining institutional expertise, the clinical and academic arms of the health care profession might further unite to embrace and support those individuals seeking to become Physician Assistants.

Confident that we have the resources and the resolve, we seek to create an educational program where individuals might learn the art of healing and use their gifts to promote a vision of health care that encompasses not only the treatment of disease, but also the avoidance of illness through education and the promotion of healthy life styles.  Thus, St. John’s PA program will continue its tradition of developing caring and committed health care professionals dedicated to the alleviation of suffering in our midst.

University of Dayton, OH

The Physician Assistant Education Department’s mission is to produce physician assistants who are committed to the service of the human person through the skillful, compassionate, and ethical provision of health care within the context of the Catholic Marianist tradition. We emphasize excellent generalist care for the whole person, particularly upholding dignity for society’s most vulnerable, in a learning environment which emphasizes leadership, life-long learning, and service.

University of Detroit Mercy, MI

University of Saint Francis, IN

The Department of Physician Assistant Studies provides education in medical knowledge and competencies as needed by individuals to serve effectively as physician assistants with a special focus on meeting the needs of underserved populations. The Department prepares students to be clinicians who achieve professional standards and have enhanced critical thinking, clinical, and scholarly competencies including research. We offer an educational environment of mutual respect, personal growth, and professional advancement.

University of Saint Francis, NM

The mission of the PA program is to educate highly qualified Physician Assistants preparing them to become competent, compassionate and comprehensive health care providers for practice in medically underserved areas. Our vision is that our graduates will be leaders in the health care community, continuously striving for excellence in their professional endeavors while providing for the health care needs of the medically underserved.

University of Saint Joseph, CT

The mission of the University of Saint Joseph Physician Assistant Studies Program is to foster the development of engaged learners into well qualified Physician Assistants. Intellectual rigor in a spiritually enriched environment will cultivate competent, ethical members of the health care team who demonstrate the highest level of integrity and a commitment to life-long learning. Graduates will exemplify a sense of social responsibility through service to the community and their profession.