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Applications from all students who believe they will require financial aid are encouraged. Due to the rigorous time demands during the didactic year and clinical rotations, the PA Program faculty strongly suggest that students do not work while enrolled.

Students who do choose to work despite this recommendation are expected to maintain all university and program attendance expectations, professional deportment, and academic standards. Students should consult with a counselor in the Financial Aid Office if they are in need of more financial resources.

We believe it is important for our students to become culturally proficient, service-minded, and prepared to serve the community around them. Graduating students will understand the need to work collaboratively with other team members and the necessity to embrace lifelong learning to keep pace with medical advances in patient care. The practice of medicine is a noble calling and will continue to demand the very best of those who pursue the study.

While our program is one of the oldest in the nation, we are continually looking to ensure that our graduates excel in careers in the rapidly expanding physician assistant profession. While training physician assistants to go into areas of primary care medicine will be our fundamental focus, we are also cognizant that PAs are increasingly serving patients in both the surgical and specialty areas of medicine.

How are we doing? The program has graduated graduates into the workforce from our eight classes in Eighty percent of the graduates are practicing clinically in the state of Oklahoma.

To expose students to the practice of primary care medicine in a variety of underserved locations during their didactic and clinical training. Our curriculum supports our mission and goals by educating students about Oklahoma health statistics and community resources in Tulsa during the first-year Public Health course and at the Summer Institute.

In addition, students attend the Bedlam-Evening free medical clinic throughout the length of the program. Clinical rotations during the second year include 22 weeks of primary care exposure, a four-week underserved medicine rotation, and a two week Community Impact experience, which includes exposure to various agencies such as the Tulsa Day Center for the Homeless and The Little Light House.

Our graduates have taken positions with the underserved that include rural medicine, federally qualified health centers, Indian health, and Oklahoma correctional facilities. To encourage the students, graduates, and faculty to participate in service and leadership roles within the University, the profession, and the broader community.

Several graduates from the inaugural class have served as faculty for the program and many more graduates donate their time to be guest instructors. Accreditation-Continued is an accreditation status granted when a currently accredited program is in compliance with the ARC-PA Standards.