The Accreditation Review Commission on Education for the Physician Assistant, Inc. (ARC-PA) has granted Accreditation-Continued status to the Ohio University Physician Assistant Program sponsored by Ohio University. Accreditation-Continued is an accreditation status granted when a currently accredited program is in compliance with the ARC-PA Standards.
Accreditation remains in effect…
Physical therapy as an alternative to opioid use in pain management has gained national attention as more light shines on addiction, overdose and death due to opioids.
The month of September is recognized in the United States as National Alcohol and Drug Addiction Recovery Month with the goal of raising awareness of the gains made by those who identify as being in recovery and…
Congratulations to the Class of 2017 on passing the PANCE with a 100% pass rate! The PANCE is the Physician Assistant National Certifying Exam that all PA students must pass to become certified. This process allows PA graduates to become certified to practice medicine.
Our first class, the Class of 2017, graduates this Sunday and the Class of 2018 will get their white coats! We are so excited to graduate our first class and to send our second class out on their clinical rotations.
The PA program is a 27 month master's program located in Dublin, Ohio. The students spend 15 months at the Dublin campus for their didactic portion and then go out for…
The College of Health Sciences and Professions congratulates Melissa Bowlby, assistant clinical professor and program director of physician assistant practice, and Jeff Fisher, assistant clinical professor of physician assistant practice, for recently being elected as president and Region 4 director, respectively, of the Ohio Association of Physician Assistants (OAPA).
OAPA is a…
Ohio University physician assistant students Samantha Dresmann, Jennifer Richardson and Amanda Becerra had the opportunity to do a behavioral medicine rotation in Florida and they discuss their experience below.
"Our rotation was behavioral medicine at the Family Center for Recovery. We were unsure of what to expect going into it but we knew that there would be inpatient residents as…
Ohio University’s College of Health Sciences and Professions honored 39 aspiring physician assistants during the program’s first White Coat Ceremony on Friday, July 22.
Sharing advice and offering congratulations, several speakers thanked the class of 2017 -- the first PA class at Ohio University -- for their commitment to helping others and encouraged them to keep their focus on the…
The Ohio University Physician Assistant Program welcomed its second class to the Dublin Campus on May 4, 2018. The Class of 2018 had three days of orientation that ended with a "Field Day" hosted by the Class of 2017!
