• How UTMB PAS demonstrates student success
  • Over the past five years, 99% of our enrolled students have successfully completed the program and graduated.
  • The latest survey indicates nearly 21% of our graduates practice in primary care.
  • Clinical preceptor reports 100% of our clinical students are well prepared for clerkship in all clinical settings.
  • UTMB has graduated over 2,200 PA’s since 1973. UTMB PA Alumni hold leadership positions as TAPA officers, Texas Medical Board members, and Program Directors, Deans, and Provosts in Texas and around the country, as well as have pioneered to the South Pole in the name of research.
• UTMB's full-time PAS faculty have well over 200 years of combined clinical experience. They come from diverse clinical backgrounds in primary care and are respected in their specialty areas including but not limited to underserved population, family practice, internal medicine, cardiology, rheumatology, neurology, doctorate in pharmacy, general surgery, orthopedic surgery, emergency medicine, global health and research.
• Physician assistants are regularly ranked among the top three healthcare, STEM and overall jobs in the U.S. (Reference: AAPA).

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

Accreditation remains in effect until the program closes or withdraws from the accreditation process or until accreditation is withdrawn for failure to comply with the Standards. The approximate date for the next validation review of the program by the ARC-PA will be June 2027. The review date is contingent upon continued compliance with the Accreditation Standards and ARC-PA policy.

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