Summer 2011
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Physician Assistant Program granted provisional accreditation Inside this Issue Message from the Dean College News
Carrie Rich Hall, previously
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the University’s library,
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was transformed this spring into a new medical
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teaching facility for the PA Program. The first floor of
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the building, a 9,200 square foot space, contains six
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offices, a 40-seat lecture hall, a physical diagnosis suite, four video enabled practice examination rooms, three study rooms,
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he Accreditation Review Commission on Education for the Physician Assistant (ARC-PA) granted provisional accreditation to the Physician Assistant Program at Campbell University’s College of Pharmacy & Health Sciences in March 2011. “I was extremely delighted to receive the ARC-PA letter granting our program provisional accreditation. My faculty and staff worked diligently preparing for this outcome,” said Tom Colletti, MPAS, PA-C, director of the PA Program at Campbell. “We can now proceed with matriculating our first class and training physician assistants to provide much needed primary care services for our communities.” Classes for the 28-month program will start this August in the renovated Carrie Rich Hall, replete with state-of-the-art educational technology. All 34 seats in the charter class are filled.
a waiting room, a student lounge and two group study rooms. The cost of the renovation was approximately $450,000.