About Physician Assistants

A graduate Physician Assistant (PA) provides a broad spectrum of health care services to patients under the supervision of a doctor of medicine or osteopathy.

Among these services are the performance of history and physical assessments, the development and implementation of appropriate therapeutic interventions, patient education and counseling, and establishing appropriate referrals. These highly skilled practitioners also provide numerous preventative and health maintenance functions that are characteristic of the practice of medicine.

Physician Assistants are educated in the basic science, patient assessment and clinical medicine in programs that are nationally accredited by the Accreditation Review Commission on Education for the Physician Assistant (ARC-PA).