{"id":1091,"date":"2026-07-12T06:30:40","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T10:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.web.umflint.edu\/graduateprograms\/?page_id=1091"},"modified":"2026-09-30T10:54:03","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T14:54:03","slug":"pa-program-data","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.umflint.edu\/graduateprograms\/pa-program-data\/","title":{"rendered":"Physician Assistant Program Data"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-cover fb-cover-text-box wp-duotone-black-and-white\" style=\"margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;padding-top:0;padding-right:0;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;min-height:100%;aspect-ratio:unset;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-block-cover__image-background\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.umflint.edu\/graduateprograms\/wp-content\/themes\/flintblock\/assets\/images\/sidewalk-art.jpg\" style=\"object-position:50% 95%\" data-object-fit=\"cover\" data-object-position=\"50% 95%\"\/><span aria-hidden=\"true\" 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Physician Assistant National Certifying Exam, which students must pass to practice as a certified PA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-large-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1nRKcTLNqkZzSE9TeA8cmyzm2y52jlZem\/view?usp=sharing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">NCCPA Exam Performance Summary Report<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><thead><tr><th class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">Class<\/th><th class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">Class<br>Graduation<br>Year<\/th><th class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">Group<\/th><th class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">Number of<br>Candidates<br>Who Took<br>PANCE<\/th><th class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">Number<br>of Exam<br>Attempts<\/th><th class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">Number<br>of Exams<br>Passed<\/th><th class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">Program<br>Exam Pass<br>Rate<\/th><th class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">National<br>Exam Pass<br>Rate for the<br>Class<br>Graduation<br>Year<\/th><th class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">% of<br>Candidates<br>Who<br>Ultimately<br>Passed<br>PANCE<\/th><\/tr><\/thead><tbody><tr><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">Class of 2023<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">2023<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">All Takers<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">38<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">48<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">36<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">75%<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">89%<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">95%<\/td><\/tr><tr><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">Class of 2023<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">2023<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">First Time Takers<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">38<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">38<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">31<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">82%<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">92%<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">95%<\/td><\/tr><tr><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">Class of 2024<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">2024<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">All Takers<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">45<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">51<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">45<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">88%<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">89%<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">100%<\/td><\/tr><tr><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">Class of 2024<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">2024<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">First Time Takers<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">45<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">45<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">41<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">91%<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">92%<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">100%<\/td><\/tr><tr><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">Class of 2025<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">2025<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">All Takers<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">48<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">58<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">46<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">79%<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">88%<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">96%<\/td><\/tr><tr><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">Class of 2025<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">2025<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">First Time Takers<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">48<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">48<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">39<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">81%<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">91%<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">96%<\/td><\/tr><tr><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">Class of 2026<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">2026<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">All Takers<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">42<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">42<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">40<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">95%<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">90%<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">95%<\/td><\/tr><tr><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">Class of 2026<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">2026<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">First Time Takers<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">42<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">42<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">40<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">95%<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">94%<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">95%<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 id=\"goals\" class=\"wp-block-heading has-x-large-font-size\">Program Goals and Outcomes<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Goal 1:&nbsp;Prepare PA students with the knowledge and skills necessary to enter clinical practice.<br>Goal 2:&nbsp;Cultivate student professionalism within the PA program.&nbsp;<br>Goal 3:&nbsp;Prepare students as leaders and advocates for the PA profession.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"\/graduateprograms\/pa-program-data\/goals-and-outcomes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Progress Toward Program Goals<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 id=\"rates\" class=\"wp-block-heading has-x-large-font-size\">Student Attrition Rates<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><thead><tr><th>Graduated Classes<\/th><th>Class of 2024<\/th><th>Class of 2025<\/th><th>Class of 2026<\/th><\/tr><\/thead><tbody><tr><td><strong>Maximum entering class size&nbsp;<\/strong>(as approved by ARC-PA)<\/td><td><strong>46<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>50<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>50<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Entering class size&nbsp;<\/td><td>48<\/td><td>50<\/td><td>50<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Graduates<\/td><td>45<\/td><td>48<\/td><td>46<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>*<\/strong><strong><em>&nbsp;<\/em><\/strong><strong>Attrition rate<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>6.25%<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>4.0%<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>8.0%<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>**Graduation rate<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>93.75%<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>96%<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>92%<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">*Attrition rate calculation:&nbsp; Number of students who attritted from cohort (decelerated + withdrawals + dismissals) divided by the (entering class size + number joining class cohort).<br>**Graduation rate calculation:&nbsp; Number of cohort graduates divided by the (entering class size + number joining class cohort).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 id=\"Competencies\" class=\"wp-block-heading has-x-large-font-size\">Competencies<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Knowledge of Practice<\/strong>: Demonstrate knowledge about established and evolving biomedical and clinical sciences and the application of this knowledge to patient care.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Interpersonal and Communication Skills<\/strong>: Demonstrate interpersonal and communication skills that result in the effective exchange of information and collaboration with patients, their families, and health professionals.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Person-centered Care<\/strong>: Provide person-centered care that includes patient- and setting-specific assessment, evaluation, and management and health care that is evidence-based, supports patient safety, and advances health equity.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Interprofessional Collaboration<\/strong>: Demonstrate the ability to engage with a variety of other health care professionals in a manner that optimizes safe, effective, patient- and population-centered care.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Professionalism and Ethics<\/strong>: Demonstrate a commitment to practicing medicine in ethically and legally appropriate ways and emphasizing professional maturity and accountability for delivering safe and quality care to patients and populations.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Practice-based Learning and Quality Improvement<\/strong>: Demonstrate the ability to learn and implement quality improvement practices by engaging in critical analysis of one\u2019s own practice experience, the medical literature, and other information resources for the purposes of self-evaluation, lifelong learning, and practice improvement.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Systems-Based Practice<\/strong>: Systems-based practice encompasses the societal, organizational, and economic environments in which health care is delivered. Physician assistants must demonstrate an awareness of and responsiveness to the larger system of health care to provide patient care that is of optimal value. PAs should work to improve the larger health care system of which their practices are a part.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Society and Population Health<\/strong>: Recognize and understand the influences of the ecosystem of person, family, population, environment, and policy on the health of patients and integrate knowledge of these determinants of health into patient care decisions.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Personal and Professional Development<\/strong>: Demonstrate the qualities required to sustain lifelong personal and professional growth.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PA National Certification Exam 5-Year Pass Rates The National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants is the credentialing organization for physician assistants in the U.S. It administers the Physician Assistant National Certifying Exam, which students must pass to practice as a certified PA. 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