• Invested full time faculty mentor students holistically to encourage professional development and a healthier quality of life.

  • Foster growth of leadership skills with fellow allied health students through dynamic interprofessional experiences

  • Preparing students to enter diverse clinical environments through primary care training reflective of Christian faith and servant leadership

  • The program maintains competitive outcomes through holistic admissions, student centered advising, and competency based curriculum.

Cross Cultural Training

The PA Program incorporates cultural immersion simulations to help PA students develop cultural competence and humility.

Program Mission

Developing caring physician assistants who practice competent, patient-centered primary care in diverse environments.

Curriculum

The Physician Assistant Program leads to a Master of Science in Physician Assistant Studies with 112 hours total (53 hours the didactic phase and 59 hours in the clinical phase).

1M+

student patient encounters

28

month PA training program

549

graduates

1st

PA program in Ark.

Class of 2023 has graduated and is hard at work in clinical practice.

Class of 2024 has completed their first year and has moved into their clinical experiences. It's an exciting time to be a PA student!

Class of 2025 is over halfway through the didactic phase of the program. 

 

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Accreditation

The Accreditation Review Commission on Education for the Physician Assistant (ARC-PA) has granted Accreditation-Continued to the Harding University Physician Assistant Program sponsored by Harding University. Accreditation-Continued is an accreditation status granted when a currently accredited program is in compliance with the ARC-PA Standards.

Admission Updates

The Class of 2026 has been finalized, and all offers have been made!  An offer has been extended to alternate #2.

Our next CASPA cycle opens April 25, 2024, and closes November 1, 2024, at 11:59 PM EST.  

Contact Us

Physician Assistant Program is part of the College of Allied Health

501-279-5642
PAprogram@harding.edu
Fax: 501-279-4811

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Mailing address:
Harding University
Physician Assistant Program
HU 12231
Searcy, AR 72149-5615