MASTER OF MEDICAL SCIENCE
Student Name ________________________________________
Catalogue Year 2011 - 2012
Enrollment in the following classes require formal
admission to the Physician Assistant Program
PREREQUISITES
All applicants are required to have all of the following
completed upon entering the PA Program:
• Bachelor's degree from a four-year, regionally
accredited college or university.
• Satisfactory completion of the medical core
prerequisite courses. No grade lower than a "C"
on any medical core prerequisite course will be
accepted.
• A minimum recommended GPA of 3.0 or better on all
college level work attempted.
• Completion of the GRE.
• No history of drug abuse or conviction of a felony.
No history of dismissal from another PA school,
medical school, or nursing school for academic or
disciplinary reasons.
• A minimum recommended GPA of 3.2 or better on
required medical core prerequisite courses.
# DIDACTIC PHASE
PHA 500
PHA 501
PHA 502
PHA 507
PHA 508
PHA 509
PHA 510
PHA 511
PHA 512
PHA 513
PHA 514
PHA 515
PHA 516
PHA 519
PHA 521
PHA 522
REQUIRED MEDICAL CORE PREREQUISITE COURSES
PHA 524
BIOLOGY- 16 semester hours to include:
PHA 525
Anatomy & Physiology
PHA 528
Microbiology
PHA 529
8 semester hours of other human and/or animal life
PHA 530
sciences. No botany, ecology, nutrition or physical
PHA 541
education courses accepted.
PHA 572
PHA 573
CHEMISTRY - 19 semester hours to include:
PHA 574
General Chemistry
8 sh
PHA 575
Organic Chemistry
8 sh
PHA 576
Biochemistry
3 sh
PHA 577
PHA 578
MATH - 6 semester hours to include:
PHA 579
College algebra or higher
PHA 580
Applied Statistics
PHA 581
NOTE: Both courses must have a math or statistics prefix.
PHA 582
PHA 583
PSYCHOLOGY - 6 semester hours
PHA 585
See recommended Additional Courses
PHA 586
PHA 590
MEDICAL TERMINOLOGY - 1 semester
CLINICAL PHASE
NOTbe taken at a four-year regionally accredited college
PHA 551
or university, or should be taken through a college
PHA 552
transfer program.
PHA 553
PHA 554
PHA 555
Medical Core GPA:
PHA 556
PHA 557
PHA 558
PHA 559
PHA 560
PHA 565
PHA 570
PHA 571
Updated 08/24/2011
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