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The mission of the Physician Assistant Program at the University of Oklahoma, School of Community Medicine, Tulsa, is to train physician assistants to provide quality health care to the citizens of Oklahoma with an emphasis on serving diverse and underserved communities.

The OU-TU SCM Physician Assistant Program in Tulsa, Oklahoma was founded in 2008 to meet the needs of the state of Oklahoma for health care providers.

Since the first class graduated in 2010, the program has produced 306 PAs, 97% of the students who entered the program. All of the graduates have passed the Physician Assistant National Certifying Examination (PANCE), with 99% doing so on their first attempt.  Every graduate seeking employment is currently practicing clinically, with 80% in the state of Oklahoma. These outcomes illustrate that we are successful in providing quality PAs to the citizens of Oklahoma.

Our most impressive success is the fact that 42% of our graduates are providing primary care health care services to their communities. Similarly, approximately 24% of our graduates are providing services to underserved populations. These statistics demonstrate that our emphasis on serving in primary care and underserved populations is influencing graduates’ career choices.



 

Summary of OU School of Community Medicine PA Graduates 2010-2022
PA Trainees:

Total number of entering students

316

Total number of graduating students

306

Graduation percentage (Goal: 95% or higher)

97%

PANCE Performance:

Class of 2022 First-Time Taker Pass Rate (Goal 100%)

 

100%

 

First-Time Taker Pass Rate (2010-2022)

99%

Five-Year First-Time Taker Pass Pate

98%

Employment:

Graduates desiring employment as a PA employed

100%

Practice Characteristics:

Oklahoma (Goal: 75% or greater)

80%

Tulsa 

56%

Primary Care (Goal: 40% or greater)

42%

Underserved Community (Goal: 20% or greater)

24%

Rural Community

12%

Emergency Medicine

14%

Surgery

14%

OU Tulsa PA Program Student Attrition 
 

Class of 2020

Class of 2021

Class of 2022

Maximum entering class size
(as approved by ARC-PA)

24

24

24

Entering class size

24

26

24

Graduates

21

26

22

* Attrition rate

12.5%

0%

8.3%

**Graduation rate

87.5%

100%

91.7%

*Attrition rate calculation:  Number of students who attritted from cohort divided by the entering class size.
**Graduation rate:  Number of cohort graduates divided by the entering class size.