Miami-based Florida International University has announced its Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine was accredited to launch a 27-month physician assistant master's program this fall to help meet the state's growing need for healthcare providers.
The inaugural class has 45 spots.
The program has two parts: 15 months of classroom-based learning, followed by 14 months of clinical rotations. Students will have the opportunity to complete rotations in family medicine, internal medicine, geriatrics, pediatrics, psychiatry, obstetrics and gynecology, general surgery and emergency medicine.
The new FIU program is one of five PA programs in the United States offered at a medical school.
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