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Physician Assistant MPAS

4 Years On Campus Masters Program

University of Iowa

Program Overview

Physician assistants (PAs) are health professionals licensed to practice medicine with supervision by a physician. PAs work together with other medical professionals as members of health care teams. In collaboration with a physician, a PA may be responsible for making medical decisions and providing a broad range of diagnostic and therapeutic services in a variety of settings, including doctors' offices, hospital emergency rooms, nursing homes, rural satellite clinics, and patients homes. PAs also are involved in patient and community health education.

Program Key Stats

$43500 (Annual cost)



84 %

Eligibility Criteria


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Additional Information & Requirements

Academic records, Typical SAT scores (combined critical reading and math)- 1060-1267, ACT Composite 23-28, Average GPA 3.64, TOEFL: IBT-80, PBT-530, IELTS-6.5, PTE-53

Career Options

  • Physician assistants also enter postgraduate residency programs in emergency medicine
  • gynecology/obstetrics
  • neonatology
  • occupational health
  • orthopaedic surgery
  • pediatrics
  • rural primary care
  • surgery
  • anesthesiology and patient monitoring systems
  • psychiatry
  • and intensive respiratory care/critical care medicine

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