Healthcare Education At Its Best
Program Overview
PBA’s new Physician Associate Program will be 27 months long with 17 months of didactic education and 10 months of clinical rotations.
At PBA, our commitment to growth in the health sciences means that you’ll have the opportunity to engage in rich, interdisciplinary collaboration. Our clinical education is designed to prepare you for the real world, with diverse experiences that include core rotations in the local community or even abroad. With our emphasis on empathy and excellence, you’ll graduate from PBA equipped to provide compassionate care to those in need.
Join A Culture Of Academic Excellence, Strong Faculty Educators And Servant Leadership
Anticipating ARC-PA approval, PBA will begin interviewing for the inaugural class in the fall of 2023 and matriculate the first class on October 1, 2024.
Tuition is a flat rate, which means the tuition will not increase annually for that specific cohort. If a student decelerates, they will pay the tuition of the class they are moving into. In the event accreditation is not obtained, all deposits will be refunded to cohort members.
Accreditation
Palm Beach Atlantic University PA program has applied for Accreditation–Provisional from the Accreditation Review Commission on Education for the Physician Assistant (ARC-PA). PBA PA program anticipates matriculating its first class in October 2024, pending achieving Accreditation–Provisional status at the June 2024 ARC-PA meeting. Accreditation–Provisional is an accreditation status granted when the plans and resource allocation, if fully implemented as planned, of a proposed program that has not yet enrolled students demonstrate the program’s ability to meet the ARC-PA Standards or when a program holding accreditation-provisional status appears to demonstrate continued progress in complying with the Standards as it prepares for the graduation of the first class (cohort) of students.
ARC Standard A3.12a Program Accreditation Status
The program must define, publish and make readily available to enrolled and prospective students general program information to include the program’s ARC-PA accreditation status as provided to the program by the ARC-PA.
ARC Standard D1.02c
The developing program must publish and make readily available to everyone who requests information, applies, or plans to enroll:
c) the implications of non-accreditation by the ARC-PA