Mission

Our mission is to empower Physician Associates to advance U.S. healthcare as effective and visionary healthcare leaders and PA educators committed to excellence, lifelong learning, and scholarly pursuit.

Values

Integrity

We embrace integrity and professionalism by modeling honesty, thoughtfulness, accountability, and consistency in our words and actions.

Compassion

We honor the dignity of students, colleagues, patients, and their families and recognize empathy for others and compassion to be a cornerstone of professionalism.

Respect

We strive to demonstrate respect to all by advocating the virtue of inclusion while embracing the differences within communities where we serve, work, and teach.

Service

We are committed to serving humanity and to the welfare of others.

Excellence

We recognize the pursuit of excellence as an ongoing standard of quality for the PA profession.

Lifelong Learning, Scholarship, and Research

We embrace lifelong learning as an essential component of proficient leadership and teaching and recognize its role in ongoing evidence-based practice, and advocacy of the PA profession through scholarship, research, and professional examples.