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From AAPA
The innovative new program will emphasize service within underserved and under-resourced communities, while offering core curriculum, coaching, and extracurriculars focused on building students’ well-being habits to help them persist in a meaningful career of service. Learn more about how the Mount's PA program is focusing on health equity and clinician well-being.
From Catholic News Agency
In response to Maryland’s growing health care crisis, Mount St. Mary’s University is launching a physician assistant program later this month. Read more about how the Mount is is combating the health care crisis in Maryland.
From The Frederick News Post
Dozens gathered on Sunday as leaders from Mount St. Mary’s University cut a ribbon to celebrate the opening of the new Timothy E. Trainor College of Health Professions. The school, on the grounds of the National Shrine of Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton, is part of the university’s effort to address health care inequity and clinician burnout. Read more about the opening of the Mount's School of Health Professions from The Frederick News Post.
From The Frederick News Post
After several years of preparing and pursuing accreditation, Mount St. Mary’s University said its new physician assistant program is set to begin next year. The two-year program features lectures, labs and 10 clinical rotations, including family, emergency and internal medicine, as well as pediatrics, surgery and behavioral health. Read more about the Mount's new PA program from The Frederick News Post
From the Catholic Review
Mount St. Mary’s University in Emmitsburg is addressing Maryland’s growing healthcare crisis with the launch of a new physician assistant (PA) initiative. Recently granted provisional accreditation, it will welcome its inaugural class in January 2026. Read more about the launch of our new Physician Assistant program from the Catholic Review.
Mount St. Mary’s University’s Physician Assistant program has received provisional accreditation from the commission that oversees PA education in the United States. The program, set to seat its first cohort of students in January 2026, will help close the health care provider deficit in Maryland. Read more about our accreditation status.
The Maryland Higher Education Commission (MHEC) approved Mount St. Mary’s University’s proposal for a comprehensive two-year graduate physician assistant (PA) program that would help close the health care provider deficit in Maryland.
From the Frederick News Post
Mount St. Mary’s University is in the process of launching a physician assistant graduate degree that is expected to be the start of a new health professions graduate school.
Mount officials say the demand for physician assistants (PA) is high, and thanks to a neighbor up the road, students will learn how to meet this need under a unique roof.
Read more about the PA program from the Frederick News Post.
The ARC-PA has granted Accreditation-Provisional status to the Mount St. Mary's University Physician Assistant Program sponsored by Mount St. Mary's University.
Accreditation-Provisional is an accreditation status granted when the plans and resource allocation, if fully implemented as planned, of a proposed program that has not yet enrolled students appear to demonstrate the program’s ability to meet the ARC-PA Standards or when a program holding Accreditation-Provisional status appears to demonstrate continued progress in complying with the Standards as it prepares for the graduation of the first class (cohort) of students.
Accreditation-Provisional does not ensure any subsequent accreditation status. It is limited to no more than five years from matriculation of the first class.