They can be found on the Required Reports and Forms page on the ARC-PA website. This link also includes the Student Attrition Template needed to be placed on the website by programs.

Yes, the program has to maintain its approved maximum class size. The ARC-PA does allow programs to temporarily increase class size without review by the ARC-PA when the increase is transient and required to accommodate a unique situation such as students that are decelerated in the program (the loss of a student from the entering cohort, who remains matriculated in the physician assistant program). However, programs making this accommodation must notify the ARC-PA via submission of the Explanation for Exceeding Class Size form.

This flexibility is not designed to encourage a program to recruit beyond its approved maximum entering class size. These increases DO NOT modify or reset the ARC-PA approved class size. They are not meant to be continually increased in successive years. The maximum entering class size is approved by the ARC-PA upon review of the program during a comprehensive review or after a change request from the program.

Forms related to reporting proposed changes to the ARC-PA are available in the Change Forms section of this site.

For additional questions not answered by the website, email them to Accreditation Services.

Please refer to SECTION E: ACCREDITATION MAINTENANCE of the Accreditation Standards for Physician Assistant Education, 5th edition for when certain required forms/reports are due and need to be uploaded to the portal.

First review the Accreditation Manual for clarification. If there is doubt, after reading the manual, contact Accreditation Services by email.

The administrative assistant needs to be added to the portal. However, a Change In Faculty form is not required.

Submit a formal request on official letterhead to Accreditation Services describing the name change and have it signed by the chief administrative officer.

There is no interval assessment fee for continuing reviews. It is included in the annual accreditation fee paid by programs.

A list of ARC-PA fees can be found on the website.

The 5th edition Standard A3.12c and A3.12i states that programs must post the most current annual NCCPA PANCE Exam Performance Summary Report Last 5 Years and the most current annual student attrition information no later than April 1st each year.

Those needing to change the date of a scheduled site visit should contact the ARC-PA Accreditation Services as soon as a need is known. Due to the fact that site visitors are volunteers and the scheduling of site visits is a complex process, programs changing the dates of their visit after they have been confirmed will likely lose flexibility in rescheduling in terms of dates. Programs requesting such changes will be responsible for any and all non-refundable expenses associated with the visit that have been incurred by the ARC-PA.

An agenda change fee will be assessed each time a request is made to be moved to a different agenda. This agenda change must be a request to be placed on a future agenda within two years from the originally scheduled agenda (as availability allows). See Fee Schedule.