| Choosing the best school for education is always | | | | This university focuses on preventive medicine |
| an important aspect in a person's life because that | | | | and primary health care. The program, similar to |
| may be one of the biggest determinants for his | | | | University of Iowa, also offers a didactic and |
| or her marketability in the future after has | | | | clinical training. It also inculcates the students to be |
| graduated from the school. | | | | capable in conducting research. Students will also |
| Here, you will find the five best schools for | | | | have the opportunity to train in medically |
| physician assistant program. As of 2007, the best | | | | underserved areas, working in a team of PA and |
| university goes to the University of Iowa. This | | | | also move forward in accordance with the |
| university offers didactic curriculum with medical | | | | changing needs of health care. Students are |
| students. In common term, PA students will be | | | | offered a dual degree program where students |
| instructed within every scope of practice in dealing | | | | can do PA degree and at the same time Masters |
| with patients. This is especially true for handling | | | | in Public Health |
| new technologies, machines and the practice of | | | | The fourth best goes to University of Texas |
| reasoning with evidence-based medicine principles. | | | | Southwestern Medical Center-Dallas which has |
| University of Iowa aims to produce students with | | | | more Nobel Prize winning faculties than other |
| critical and analytical thinking; probing every facts | | | | medical schools and the PA produced has |
| and evidence they obtain to get more detailed | | | | averagely 99 percent passing rates on the PANCE |
| information in order for them to analyze a certain | | | | for 5 years. University of Utah also combines |
| disease. | | | | didactic and clinical training to the students. |
| Then, it was followed by Duke University. Duke | | | | Students will have to first complete the didactic |
| Universities is a teaching institution where practical | | | | curriculum before advancing to the clinical training. |
| and clinical trainings are focused and offered to | | | | Fifteen months of clinical training in rotations will |
| the students. The students will be required to | | | | have to be completed in order to graduate. |
| complete a two months of assignments in a | | | | Choose your school which suits your needs in |
| medically underserved area, mostly in public health | | | | order to pursue your PA career. It is always best |
| clinics, small community hospitals and private | | | | to get more information from the websites of |
| community practices in rotation. The program also | | | | these universities or go to the universities and |
| focuses on students with abilities to conduct | | | | seek the student counselors. They will always be |
| researches with vast their vast research facilities. | | | | ready for inquiries. |
| The third best school falls on Emory University. | | | | |