
WHITE COAT CEREMONY
The 2020 PA class donned their white coats after receiving them at the White Coat Ceremony on May 10, 2019. This ceremony marks the beginning of their student rotations in medical practice.
Upon graduation from the Physician Assistant BS/MS (4.5 Year) program you are eligible to take the Physician Assistant National Certifying Exam (PANCE) for physician assistants. Consistently our students have the highest professional certifying examination pass rate on campus. The vast majority of our students consistently meet or exceed the national PANCE pass rate average, year after year.
DYU PA Five Year First Time Taker Summary Report 2017-2021.
⇒ DYU NCCPA PANCE Exam Performance Summary Report (All Test Takers)
Graduated Class of 2021 |
Graduated Class of 2020 |
Graduated Class of 2019 |
|
---|---|---|---|
Maximum entering class size (as approved by ARC-PA) | 40 | 40 | 40 |
Entering class size | 40 | 39 | 38 |
Graduates | 35 | 36 | 32 |
*Attrition Rate | 12% | 8% | 16% |
**Graduation Rate | 88% | 92% | 84% |
*Attrition rate calculation: Number of students who attritted from cohort divided
by the entering class size.
**Graduation rate: Number of cohort graduates divided by the entering class size.