Mission and Goals

 

Mission

To develop physician assistants with the knowledge and skills to practice in all aspects of medicine from a primary care perspective and to meet the needs of society through education, discovery and service.

Goals

Goal #1:  Continue to have above national average pass rates for first time PANCE (national certification) test takers.

Goal #2:  Have 95 percent PANCE pass rate within the first year after graduation.

Goal #3:  Have high employment rates (90 percent) of graduates within the first 6 months after graduation.

Goal #4:  Have a high level of student satisfaction as measured by online surveys of lecturers and faculty.

Goal #5:    Provide affordable graduate PA education compared to other comparable programs within Georgia and across the southeast.

Goal #6:   Maintain high graduation rates with low attrition/deceleration rates.