Training to Become a Physician Assistant

Explore how South University’s physician assistant programs can provide the training you need to become a physician assistant.

A physician assistant may perform medical functions that include, but are not limited to, evaluation, monitoring, diagnostics, therapeutics, counseling, and referral. The scope of the practice varies according to state laws, the medical setting, and the training of the physician assistant. In many states, physician assistants can prescribe and/or dispense medicine.

The Master of Science in Physician Assistant Studies programs, offered at South University’s Savannah and Tampa campuses, offer you effective learning opportunities designed to prepare you to perform expected competencies in an ethical, legal, safe and effective manner upon graduation and become a physician assistant.

In addition, the objectives of the physician assistant program are:

• to recruit qualified students from all areas and provide fair and equitable admissions criteria;


• make available a variety of instructional models and resources to provide the student with the most effective learning arrangements and opportunities;


• provide appropriate cognitive psychomotor and affective learning opportunities for students to achieve the necessary competency and proficiency levels expected and required of the physician assistant;


• instill the importance and value of continued education and involvement in appropriate professional and community affairs after graduation from the physician assistant program;


• and encourage students in the Physician Assistant Studies program to recognize their own strengths and limitations and interpret for others the scope and function of a physician assistant.