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March 14, 2005 Harding receives provisional accreditation for Physician Assistant ProgramSEARCY - The Physician Assistant Program has received provisional accreditation and will begin interviewing and accepting applicants immediately, Harding University officials announced Monday.On Jan. 13-14, representatives from the Accreditation Review Commission for the Education of Physician Assistant (ARC-PA) conducted a provisional accreditation site visit at Harding. Provisional accreditation by ARC-PA was necessary before Harding could begin offering classes. "We have received provisional accreditation with no citations," says Dr. Mike Murphy, program director. The program will have the next 18-30 months to prepare for a continuing accreditation site visit by ARC-PA, which is the next step in the accreditation process. But, says Murphy, the immediate task at hand is to enroll students. After the January site visit, the program began accepting applicants, confident the review would be positive. The application deadline is April 29, and classes begin June 6. "We have a lot of applicants to begin interviewing," Murphy says. He plans to enroll 16 students for the first class. An additional 24 students will be added in June 2006. Murphy, M.D., a 1977 Harding graduate, earned his medical degree from the University of Missouri in Columbia and has held academic appointments in family medicine residency at Southern Illinois, University of Illinois, University of Tennessee and Cox Health Systems. He has successfully led several residency programs through the accreditation process. The master's-level program, which trains highly skilled licensed health professionals to practice medicine with physician supervision, will be the only one of its kind in Arkansas. As part of their responsibilities, physician assistants take medical histories, perform physical exams, diagnose illnesses, develop and carry out treatment plans, order and interpret lab tests, suture lacerations, apply casts, assist in surgery, provide patient education and preventative health care counseling, and - in most states - prescribe medications. A typical program is 26 months long, including one year of classroom instruction and at least one year of clinical work. Various clinical rotations may include emergency medicine, family practice, geriatrics, internal medicine, obstetrics and gynecology, pediatrics, and surgery. PAs must pass national certification exams prior to licensure. The program application and additional information can be found online at www.harding.edu/paprogram. For more information contact: |
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