• Goal 1: The program will maintain a level of PANCE (Physician Assistant National Certifying Exam) pass rates above the national average.
  • Presbyterian College First Time PANCE Pass Rate
• Goal 2: The program will maintain a 90% or better graduation rate for entering PA program students.
  • Class 2021 = 100% Graduation Rate
  • Class of 2022 = 97% Graduation Rate
  • Class of 2023 = 97% Graduation Rate
  • Class of 2024 = 86% Graduation Rate
  • Attrition information
• Goal 3: The deceleration rates for PA program students will be 10% or less for academic reasons.
  • Class of 2021 = 0% Deceleration Rate
  • Class of 2022 = 0% Deceleration Rate
  • Class of 2023 = 0% Deceleration Rate
  • Class of 2024 = 0% Deceleration rate
• Goal 4: Among those actively seeking employment, the employment rate for graduates of the PA program will be 90% or greater twelve months after graduation.
  • Class of 2021 = 96% Employment for those passing the PANCE
  • Class of 2022 = 100% Employment for those passing the PANCE
  • Class of 2023 = 100% Employment for those passing the PANCE
• Goal 5: Through its student society, foster service and leadership in the community and the profession.
  • See Below for PA Outreach Projects

• Good Shepherd Free Clinic – collection and donation of dental hygiene products
• YMCA Clinton -Assist with Health & Wellness Screenings.
• Valentine’s Day cards to St. Jude patients
  • Jude Children’s Hospital specializes in research, cures, and prevention of pediatric catastrophic diseases. Since the patients at St. Jude were unable to participate in typical Valentine’s Day celebrations with their classmates, we worked to ensure that they still felt loved and appreciated. We each wrote several Valentine’s Day cards that were delivered to patients at St. Jude. This was available through St. Jude’s website and all cards were sent virtually.
• Hospice of Laurens County – Students collected snack donations for families visiting loved ones at this location.
• Humane Society of Laurens County – Student volunteer hours. 
• Geraldine’s Soup Kitchen -Students volunteer with food preparation and service.
• Clinton Nursing Home -Students make Valentine’s cards for all the residents.
• MUSC – Easter encouragement messages.
  • To make Easter in the hospital feel more like home, we wrote encouraging messages to patients at MUSC that were printed and placed in Easter eggs for an egg hunt throughout the hospital. This was available through MUSC’s website.
• 3.2 for 32 Virginia Tech Remembrance Walk
  • Walked/ran 3.2 miles in remembrance of the 32 lives lost in the Virginia Tech shooting on April 16th, 2007.
• American Red Cross -Blood Drive
  • The American Red Cross set up a donation truck on campus encouraging faculty, staff, and students to donate blood.
• Ronald McDonald House Charities – Needs Drive
  • The Ronald McDonald House is a nonprofit organization that assists families who have loved ones seeking medical care by providing more than 2.5 million overnight stays each year, meals, and daily necessities. This helps families save over $930 million in hotel and meal expenses. We donated 4 large boxes of needed items to RMH in Greenville and collected pop tops. 
• Murph Challenge for Memorial Day
  • The Murph Challenge is named after Michael Murphy, a Navy Lieutenant who was killed in action in Afghanistan. Murphy was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for courage and sacrifice. This workout is a symbolic gesture of respect for the fallen soldiers, and service men and women who risk their lives to defend our freedom.
• St. Luke Free Clinic
  • Students volunteered at St. Luke Free Medical Clinic in Spartanburg, SC where they assisted in providing medical care to the underserved community.
• United Way of Laurens 2nd Annual Bookbag Giveaway
  • Students collected much-needed school supplies to help fill backpacks for children in Laurens County with the United Way of Laurens. The child had to be present to receive a backpack. In addition, students created flyers on Pediatric Health Education (Respiratory Infections and Prevention, Smoking in Teens, Head Trauma, Voiding/Potty training, Diet for Children, and Eye Development) to pass out to parents.
• Women’s Health Month – Period products drive.  (May)
• Teacher Appreciation Day -Teaching Supplies are collected and donated to local schools. 
• SC Empowerment Center Youth Food and Hygiene Supply Drive
  • Donation collection of food and other products as a part of the Christmas Drive

The PC PA Program guides students through the acquisition of key program competencies. These competencies represent the knowledge, interpersonal, clinical, and technical skills, professional behaviors, and clinical reasoning and problem-solving abilities required for graduation and entry into PA practice.

The PC PA Program Competencies were adapted from the “Competencies of the Physician Assistant Profession” (2012), the PAEA’s Core Tasks and Objectives, the PAEA Core Competencies for New Physician Graduates (2018), the ARC-PA Standards of Accreditation (2018), the AAMC’s Core Entrustable Professional Activities for Entering Residency, and the NCCPA Exam Content Blueprint to fit within the mission of PC PA Program.

The Faculty for the PC PA Program, along with the approval of the Academic, Clinical, and Steering Committees, have reviewed and approved these Program Competencies. This process ensures that the curriculum and assessments are aligned and that the Program Competencies represent the most current standards of medical education, medical care, and student acquisition of learning.

Students will be prepared for certification and clinical practice by demonstrating competency in each of the Program Competencies. Upon completion the program, graduating PA students will complete the defined competencies below.