Physician Assistant Program in Michigan - MI

By an allied health world contributing writer
Published: January, 18 2010

University physician assistant programs in Michigan offer a master of science where students study nonstop for 24 to 27 months. During the first year they learn mostly in the classroom and the lab, with some attention to research. A clinical year follows during which students do rotations in places like hospitals, clinics, and doctor’s offices; the students get to experience the range of practice areas, for example, emergency medicine, mental health, surgery, family medicine, pediatrics, women’s health, and internal medicine and often a research project as well.

Likely prerequisites to Physician Assistant Programs in Michigan include college work in general, organic, and biochemistry; general and microbiology, human anatomy and physiology, and genetics; statistics; and psychology.

Another possibility is doing a fast-track, five-year program that combines a bachelor of science in biology with a master of science in physician assistant studies.