On the computer-based TOEFL, we require a total score of 80 with 20 on each section listening, speaking, reading and writing. You are also required to submit your foreign coursework to a US-based evaluation service for a course-by-course US equivalency report. We recommend you contact a foreign transcript evaluation service as early as possible.
Services can take several weeks to process your transcript s once received. The following are foreign evaluation vendors our applicants have used in the past. This list is not all-inclusive and we do not recommend or endorse any particular vendor or service. All regular admission requirements must be completed.
Fifteen 15 semester hours must be completed in a United States accredited institution. Nine of the 15 hours must be prerequisite science courses. International students will have the same financial policy applied to them as any other student does.
Only international students with a valid immigration student status of F-1 will be permitted to register. Accreditation-Continued is an accreditation status granted when a currently accredited program is in compliance with the ARC-PA Standards. Accreditation remains in effect until the program closes or withdraws from the accreditation process or until accreditation is withdrawn for failure to comply with the standards.
The faculty prepares them well. My patients love how thorough and professional they are during history taking and physical exams. I highly recommend becoming a preceptor to share your experience and knowledge with these newcomers to our profession. Tomsett Jr. Trevecca partners with medical professionals who can offer hands-on training to PA students.
Locally licensed physician assistants, nurse practitioners, doctors of medicine and doctors of osteopathic medicine are invited to apply to serve as clinical preceptors. I finished fully prepared, ready to face the real world of medicine and patients, and most importantly equipped to face that world as the hands and feet of Christ in medicine. That is what the program is all about. I had never been pushed so hard academically, yet I always felt accepted and respected even if I wasn't at the top of my class.
The faculty and preceptors were knowledgeable and compassionate. And God used my international rotation to confirm my desire to serve as a missionary. The program not only provided me with the medical skills and knowledge needed to be a competent PA, but expanded my ability to face challenges, deepened my faith, gave me life-long friendships and ultimately helped me become a better version of myself.
I truly believe both the faculty and my classmates want to see me succeed and I want the same for them. It is a family environment of people who push each other to be their best. The faculty members are outstanding--they truly care about their students and strive to see each person in the program succeed academically, professionally and as a whole person.
My favorite aspect is the faith-based learning. By starting each day with a devotion, we are constantly reminded about what is most important--Jesus. I cannot imagine going through PA school anywhere else. Trevecca feels like home and my class feels like family. Through this program, I established faith in the Lord, a devotion to medicine and a mission to help people.
This pathway consists of the courses required for a major in biology with a minor in chemistry, along with defined upper-level electives focused on building a solid foundation for PA school. Learn More. Your application should be submitted along with an official GRE score by October 1. All shadowing and direct patient care hours are also due at the time of application. Your application cannot be processed until all requirements are completed, with the exception of any pending coursework two or fewer prerequisite science courses may be pending for the spring semester.
All coursework must be completed by May of the matriculating year. We conduct our interviews between summer and February. Applicants are contacted two-four weeks prior to the interview date with an invitation. View our applicant requirements to learn more about what is required to receive an interview invitation. After each interview session, we make every effort to contact each interviewee within two weeks about a decision.
Applicants will receive an acceptance, hold status or denial. Those who wish to be among the first applicants should apply at the earliest opportunity once admission requirements are fulfilled.
The cycle opens in April each year. Two of the three references are of your own choosing. Your third reference must be from a physician assistant.
That PA should be someone you have worked alongside in a clinical setting while employed or shadowing. Additional letters are not necessary. No, you must accrue and log all shadowing and direct patient care hours prior to submitting your application. Do not send updated direct patient care or shadowing hours to the program directly. In updating hours through CASPA, enter a new line item for each experience of additional hours, as hours submitted previously cannot be changed.
View the estimated cost of attendance for the Physician Assistant program. The application cycle opens once per academic school year, however within that cycle we review applicants on a rolling basis.
Interviews will be conducted from July to December Every developing PA program goes through a rigorous application and review process and can receive provisional accreditation if all standards are met. Accreditation will remain provisional until the first class is ready to graduate and the next site visit will take place around that time. If for some reason the program was to lose accreditation, the graduating students would finish and be eligible to take the PANCE national certifying exam.
PLNU was excited to receive provisional accreditation in April of Any paid health care position that requires specialized training, certification or licensure meets this definition. Given the liability limitations placed on volunteer work, neither shadowing nor volunteering can be considered. Look carefully at the values espoused by this or any program you are considering. In our case, we value prior academic work, health care experience and community service, particularly to under-served and under-represented diverse communities.
Also look at the average GPA and number of health care hours of prior classes to understand the academic and experience of successful candidates. Email the program gradinfo pointloma. What language do you speak at home? The degree and corresponding transcripts will need to be evaluated and verified by World Educational Services or any NACES evaluating agency who then provide documentation of their findings.
We will need this verification in order to determine whether or not your undergraduate degree and the corresponding coursework is comparable and meets the specific unit requirements of our program. Applicants are responsible for choosing what courses they would like to apply towards prerequisite requirements on their CASPA application. Whichever courses the applicant chooses will be used for the prerequisite grade.
As a graduate medical program, the curriculum is limited to the content specifically relevant to the skills and knowledge needed to become a PA and to the intersection of society and medicine. PLNU is a faith-based university with faculty and staff who share similar values. That faith is manifested in our mission of service to all people regardless of their faith or beliefs. We seek students who share a similar orientation to service especially to underserved and marginalized communities regardless of their faith.
Cultural awareness and sensitivity are strong values of our program and it will be an expectation of our students that they are respectful and compassionate towards patients from all walks of life. We strongly discourage it. The rigor and intensity of the program has repeatedly demonstrated that students who work while enrolled do not do as well academically. No, our program does not require either test to apply. While the CASPA application will allow applicants to submit test scores, the Admissions Committee does not consider this information within its evaluation of an application.
Classes, labs and directed clinical experiences during the didactic phase meet Monday - Friday between 8 a. In general, students can expect to spend 24 - 28 hours in class each week with study time interspersed. Clinical rotations however may be scheduled any day and any time as the clinical facility is open.
This 28 month curriculum is designed to maximize student learning by using the clinical presentations to assist learners in organizing their knowledge into information packets. There are three major factors in learning and memory retrieval: meaning, encoding which is the context and sequence of learning and task practice.
The strongest of these is the degree of meaning and the degree to which it can be imposed on the material to be learned. The domain of medicine can be organized into about clinical presentations representing the most common way that patients, groups of patients, or populations present to the provider.
This creates a powerful tool for both the organization of knowledge memory and its retrieval necessary for subsequent problem solving. Skip to main navigation Skip to main content. Physician Assistant, M. Learn More. Applicants are expected to have a cumulative grade point average GPA of 3. These scores are believed to indicate sufficient academic ability for successful completion of the program. With large numbers of applicants, not all students meeting the minimum requirements will receive an interview.
Candidates should endeavor to obtain the highest GPA and GRE scores possible, and with grades lower than a B, retake courses that would reflect a grasp of the material and a capability of rigorous course work, because entering students in the last three years have significantly exceeded the minimum requirements. Taking additional upper level science courses are also helpful to show competitiveness. If coursework is repeated, would the admissions committee consider the average of the most recent coursework or would multiple courses be averaged?
What are the statistics for the most recent cohort that has matriculated into the program? You can take classes at a community college, but you may want to make sure the classes are comparable to those taken at a university. Can Abnormal Psychology substitute for the Developmental Psychology prerequisite?
No, this is not an acceptable substitution. It is important that normal psychological development across the lifespan be covered in the course. Do you accept online courses or hybrid classes that offer labs on campus and lectures online? Online or hybrid courses can be used to satisfy the psychology prerequisites, but they cannot be used to satisfy any science prerequisites. Yes, all science courses must be completed within 7 years or less of matriculation. If a science course was taken greater than 7 years prior to matriculation, then a refresher course must be successfully completed.
A refresher course is qualified by repeating the course, or in the case of a 2-semester course, repeating one half of the course. An applicant may be exempt from taking a refresher course if they have practiced consistently in a clinical setting in which the material covered in the course was utilized.
Three 3 different sources for recommendations are acceptable and ranked in descending order of preference as listed below: A physician or physician assistant who is acquainted with the applicant's abilities and potential. A college professor, preferably from the applicant's major, who is acquainted with the applicant's abilities and potential.
An employer who is acquainted with the applicant's abilities and potential. Attending the "Information Nights" for further information about the PA Program For questions concerning the CASPA application process, please contact them directly at or e-mail apply caspaonline.
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