BS Premedical and Health Studies/
Master of Physician Assistant Studies
(Professional Pathway)
Boston
Priority Admission Pathway to the MCPHS Master of Physician Assistant Studies Program
During the third year of the Bachelor of Science in Premedical and Health Studies, MCPHS students are eligible to apply through CASPA, a national application service, to the MCPHS Physician Assistant Studies program. If accepted, students move into the MCPHS program and earn the Bachelor of Science degree in Premedical and Health Studies at the end of the first professional year (their fourth year at the College) and the Master of Physician Assistant Studies degree (MPAS) two years later.
The MCPHS master of physician assistant program involves an intensive study of the basic behavioral and medical sciences followed by in-depth exposure to a wide variety of patients in a range of clinical clerkships.
Through collaborative teaching affiliations, MCPHS physician assistant students have access to some of the most prestigious medical teaching programs in the world. For example, students study gross anatomy with Harvard Medical School faculty with access to the gross anatomy laboratory and the Countway Medical Library at Harvard University. Students also study genetics with the faculty at Harvard-Partners Center for Genetics and Genomics.
In order to qualify for priority admission to the MPAS program, students majoring in Premedical and Health Sciences at MCPHS should take the courses in the bachelor of science curriculum with these changes:
- Year III fall:
replace Immunology with PSB 328 Physiology/Pathophysiology I (4) - Year III spring:
replace Genetics with PSB 329 Physiology/Pathophysiology II (4)