The Accreditation Review Commission on Education for the Physician Assistant (ARC-PA)
The D'Youville PA Department is accredited by the Accreditation Review Commission on Education for the Physician Assistant (ARC-PA). D'Youville's Physician Assistant program was the first program of its kind in Western New York.
More about ARC-PA can be found on arc-pa.org/.
Accreditation Status
The Accreditation Review Commission on Education for the Physician Assistant (ARC-PA) has granted Accreditation-Continued status to the Physician Assistant Program sponsored by D'Youville. Accreditation-Continued is an accreditation status granted when a currently accredited program is in compliance with the ARC-PA Standards.
Accreditation remains in effect until the program closes or withdraws from the accreditation process or until accreditation is withdrawn for failure to comply with the Standards. The date for the next validation review of the program by the ARC-PA will be September 2019. The review date is contingent upon continued compliance with the Accreditation Standards and ARC-PA policy.
Full Accreditation Review: 2010
In the summer of 2010, the D'Youville PA Department underwent a full accreditation review. The accreditation reviewers found no areas of concern and made no recommendations for change to the Physician Assistant Department. We were thus granted re-accreditation for the longest term (seven years) before our next scheduled review. This was a testament to the hard work and attention to student needs of our faculty and staff as well as to the academic achievements of our superior students and graduates.