The ARC-PA is excited to share the FIRST DRAFT of the Accreditation Standards for PA Education 6th Edition.
The changes reflected in this draft result from the data compiled from the program surveys, focus groups, citation counts, and other data collected by the ARC-PA. The ARC-PA Standards Committee utilized all these data points to discuss the potential changes to each accreditation standard.
The Standards recognize the continuing evolution of the PA profession and practice and endorse experiential competency-based education as a fundamental tenet of PA education. They reflect a commonality in the core professional curriculum of programs that remains desirable and necessary to offer curricula of sufficient depth and breadth to prepare all PA graduates for practice. The Standards allow programs to remain creative and innovative in program design and the methods of curriculum delivery and evaluation that are used to enable students to achieve program goals and student competencies.
The next step in this process is to elicit feedback from our stakeholders. Please review the attached document and use the QR code below or this link https://forms.office.com/r/0W8ZWkkvGC to provide feedback by Friday, November 1, 2024
Upon reviewing the feedback from all stakeholders, the Standards Committee will continue to work on revisions to present to the ARC-PA Commission.
