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Physician Assistant
Do you have what it takes to be a part of this highly selective master’s level program?
Physician Assistant Studies
Master of Science Degree (M.S.)
Making a difference requires hard work and dedication.
Everyone wants to make the world a better place. As a physician assistant, you will. Under physician supervision, you'll work with patients to evaluate, diagnose, and treat medical conditions. Thanks to extensive experience with the latest technologies, practices, techniques, and procedures, you'll feel prepared to make the critical healthcare decisions.
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Physician Assistant Studies (M.S.)
This two-year physician assistant studies master's program includes a year of intensive lab-based study and a year of clinical experience in a variety of medical settings.
Minors & Immersions
Pair a minor with any bachelor's degree, or an immersion with any bachelor's or associate's degree.
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Penn College News
09.18.2023
Penn College introduces updated Physician Assistant Center
Pennsylvania College of Technology’s physician assistant program hosted an open house on Sept. 15 to showcase recently completed renovations that promise to provide a true-to-life setting for hands-on education. Throughout the Physician Assistant Center, updates provide equipment and spaces that mirror the scenarios students will encounter in the clinical rotations they complete during their final year of study. New spaces include a Family Medicine Lab, a Women’s Health Lab and an Emergency Medicine Lab.
08.21.2023
Student’s podcast advances her mission to prevent suicide
Helping others to feel comfortable talking about mental health is vitally important to new Pennsylvania College of Technology graduate Tori Siler: because 800,000 people worldwide die by suicide every year (an average of one person every 40 seconds), because most individuals see a medical professional within a month of taking their life, and on the most personal level, because her father took his life in 2015, when Siler was 14 years old.
04.14.2023
Concrete students ace 'entrance exam'
As renovations continue at Penn College's Physician Assistant Center, students in instructor Franklin H. Reber Jr.'s Concrete Construction class spent much of their Friday making complementary exterior improvements.