Welcome Logan University PA Program

Hello PALH Members,

It is with great honor that I would like to welcome our newest PA School affiliate.

The Logan University PA Program is applying for Accreditation – Provisional from the Accreditation Review Commission on Education for the Physician Assistant (ARC-PA). Logan University anticipates matriculating its first class in January 2026, pending achieving Accreditation – Provisional status.

It will offer  a Master of Science in Physician Assistant Studies degree, with a 24-month program that begins in January 2026 with a maximum class size of 40 students. 

 As a PA student in Logan University’s PA program, you will gain hands-on experience in clinical practice, learning the essential skills necessary to provide high-quality patient care. The PA curriculum is designed to prepare students for various health care settings, including but not limited to primary care, internal medicine, and emergency medicine. Our mission-driven program is in compliance with the Accreditation Review Commission (ARC-PA) Standards to ensure that graduates meet the requirements to practice as competent, compassionate PAs. Our PA program equips you with the knowledge and skills to excel in the PA profession.

Mission:

Educate students to become caring, competent PAs who will practice evidence-based medicine, exhibit cultural sensitivity, demonstrate effective leadership qualities, and are devoted to whole health minded care.

Program Competencies

Medical Knowledge

• Apply a core fund of medical knowledge across the basic sciences including anatomy, physiology, pathophysiology, genetics, and pharmacology in all organ systems across the lifespan.
• Discern between normal and abnormal health among acute, chronic, and emergent health states across the lifespan.
• Correlate the etiology, risk factors, and epidemiology of various medical conditions across the lifespan.
• Demonstrate searching, interpreting, and evaluating evidence-based information including biomedical, pharmacology, clinical and social sciences, and the application of that knowledge to patient care.

Patient Care, Clinical Reasoning and Technical Skills

• Support patients and families through counseling and education across the lifespan (prenatal, infant, children, adolescents, adults, and elderly) including those with diverse backgrounds, empowering all patients’ participation in their care, enabling shared decision-making and adherence to treatment plans (including preventive, emergent, acute, chronic, and rehabilitative patient encounters, psychiatric/behavioral conditions, palliative, and end-of-life care).
• Demonstrate proficiency in performing clinical procedures and surgical skills (pre, post and intra-operative) considered essential for entry into PA practice.
• Integrate all aspects of the patient encounter resulting in focused and accurate communication, including the medical decision-making process, in oral presentations and written documentation.
• Demonstrate effective clinical reasoning and problem-solving skills utilizing current evidence-based medical information.

Interpersonal Skills

• Utilize effective communication skills when establishing rapport and collaborating with patients and families while providing whole health medical care that is considerate, respectful, ethical, empathetic, and equitable.
• Incorporate knowledge of diverse backgrounds in making inclusive, equitable, accurate and well-informed medical decisions and individualized care plans – considering race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, disability/special needs, cultural influences, socioeconomic, environmental, social determinants of health and other population level issues.
• Demonstrate the ability to communicate and collaborate effectively with all members of the health care team.

Professional and Ethical Behavior

• Demonstrate effective leadership qualities which include professional and ethical behavior in alignment with the standards of the profession (accept accountability and constructive feedback, admit errors, maintain self-awareness of limitations, and recognize when it is appropriate to seek guidance).
• Prioritize patient safety and quality of care through the collaboration of interprofessional patient-centered teams.
• Cultivate responsibility to self through strategies for personal wellness; to the PA profession with knowledge of the history and role of PA professional organizations; and to the communities served by delivering safe and quality medical care.

Practice and System Based Learning and Improvement 

• Discuss relevant laws, policies, and regulations that govern the delivery of care and PA practices.
• Integrate healthcare system administrative functions into patient care, including coding and billing, HIPAA compliance, patient safety, error prevention, quality improvement, and risk management.
• Examine the role of the PA related to concepts of public health including disease prevention, population health maintenance, patient advocacy, and the variety of health systems.

We will be having an event with them in the near future so that you may ask any questions at that time.

For more information about this PA Program visit our Main Page and look for their logo or find their website under our Affiliation Resources Tab.

PALH

Jose Fernandez, MPAS, PA-C