Postbaccalaureate MPAS (24-month)
Physician Assistant Studies
Manchester and Worcester Facilities
Manchester, N.H.
MCPHS-Manchester's 33,000 square-foot campus houses both standard- and distance- education classrooms with media and internet capabilities, a computer laboratory, a health sciences library with electronic linkages to MCPHS-Boston and a student lounge with wireless and Internet access for study, socializing and relaxing.
The patient assessment laboratory on the Manchester campus, completed in 2003, is designed to provide an optimal environment for student experiences in outpatient and other ambulatory clinic environments. The lab features:- Twelve individualized bays
- A life-size adult Manikin which enables students to practice wound care and learn technical procedures including endotracheal intubation, nasogastric tube insertion, venipuncture, and urinary catheterization.
Worcester, Mass.
The beautifully renovated Living and Learning Center on the Worcester campus opened in 2005, with classrooms, labs, an office suite and apartment-style housing for students. As in Boston, clinical simulation and patient assessment laboratories prepare students for leading-edge practice. A health sciences library with electronic linkages to MCPHS-Boston, and other academic and medical libraries and student lounge areas for study, socializing and relaxing are also provided. The intimate and easily accessed Worcester campus offers:
- Classrooms with state-of-the-art media and Internet capabilities linked directly to the Boston and Manchester campuses
- State-of-the art video conferencing technology
- Clinical simulation and patient assessment laboratories
- Computer classrooms
- Health sciences library with electronic linkages to other campuses
- Seminar rooms