With a physician assistant graduate degree, you’ll be equipped to offer holistic patient care with compassion, integrity, and purpose.
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Delivery
Face to face
Finish in
27 months
Estimated tuition
$101,920
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Program highlights
Outstanding training facilities
You’ll train in state-of-the-art facilities, utilizing patient simulations, cadaver dissection, and procedural trainers to enhance learning.
Experienced core faculty
Our professors have close to 150 years of combined clinical work as PAs or physicians and bring this wealth of experience to the classroom.
Faith integration
Our professors embrace a holistic approach to medical care that takes into account the mind, body, and spirit connection in medicine and integrates it with faith in patient treatment.
Statewide partnerships
Our physician assistant graduate program has created strong community and statewide partnerships with clinical sites all over Minnesota and neighboring states to provide quality clinical experience and training.
Systems-based curriculum
Our systems-based curriculum integrates clinical medicine, pathophysiology, pharmacology, medical procedures, and case-based learning.
Transformative community
You'll discover a strong sense of community. Faculty become mentors and classmates become colleagues and lifelong friends.
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Now more than ever, our world needs excellent healthcare providers, and Bethel’s physician assistant graduate program is preparing students who help meet that need. Through the PA program, you’ll become a skilled healthcare professional, prepared to provide comprehensive patient care to people of all ages, backgrounds, and walks of life.
99.6
graduates who passed the Physician Assistant National Certifying Exam
150
years of clinical expertise by PA program faculty
The Physician Assistant program at Bethel University has allowed me to grow as a student, future provider, and Christian. I appreciate the Christian perspective our professors use to show that all patients are of equal worth and dignity.
Courtney Perpich '15
With an incredibly helpful and supportive faculty, and a great cohort of classmates, there is no other place I'd rather be preparing for a career as a Physician Assistant.
Amanda Walters '16Grad School: Bethel University
The faculty are not only incredible practitioners, they are also friends. They care about me, they care about my family, and they are preparing me with the best Physician Assistant education possible.
Lisa Milbrandt '15
The sense of community within the PA program at Bethel is something I appreciate greatly. The teachers and students are all on the same team - we want to become the best people and medical providers we can be.
Sarah Field '16
I have loved having a faith-based program. From the prayer before each test to the sincere caring attitudes of the faculty - it has been a great educational experience!
Laura Bade '15Career Outcomes
What can I do with an M.S. in Physician Assistant?
Our physician assistant graduates provide comprehensive patient care to diverse individuals, families, and communities, nearby and around the world.
Skills
Learn how to:
- Take medical histories and perform physical exams
- Assist with preventive care
- Solve problems and make decisions in healthcare settings
- Conduct clinical procedures
- Manage ethical/legal considerations
- Provide prognoses and treatments for diseases
- Think through and analyze issues critically
- Perform research and apply statistics to it
- Communicate effectively with patients from all socioeconomic backgrounds
- Understand billing and coding, risk management, and other legal issues in the PA profession
Careers
Our graduates work in:
- Family practice
- Internal medicine
- Pediatrics
- Women’s health
- Surgery
- Emergency medicine
- And many other specialties
Employers
Our graduates work in settings like:
- Private clinics
- Hospitals
- Public health care facilities
- Governmental service
- Medical missions
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