{"id":3028,"date":"2015-10-02T11:50:41","date_gmt":"2015-10-02T15:50:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/?p=3028"},"modified":"2018-08-15T12:16:54","modified_gmt":"2018-08-15T16:16:54","slug":"physician-assistant-program-admits-inaugural-class-of-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/2015\/10\/physician-assistant-program-admits-inaugural-class-of-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Physician Assistant Program Admits Inaugural Class of Students"},"content":{"rendered":"<header>\n<p id=\"pageTitle\">The UNC-Chapel Hill Physician Assistant program, which launches in January 2016, has admitted its inaugural class of students.<\/p>\n<\/header>\n<div id=\"content-area\">\n<div id=\"parent-fieldname-text\" class=\"plain\">\n<p>UNC-Chapel Hill&#8217;s Department of Allied Health Sciences Physician Assistant faculty extended admission to the inaugural class of students in November 2015. Continue reading to learn more about this inaugural class.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>More than\u00a0<strong>800<\/strong>\u00a0people completed an application to the program<\/li>\n<li><strong>19 out of 20<\/strong>\u00a0students accepted an offer of admission to the program<\/li>\n<li>The average student age is<strong>\u00a033<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>45 percent\u00a0<\/strong>of the inaugural class are veterans (national average is six percent)<\/li>\n<li><strong>35 percent<\/strong>\u00a0of the inaugural class are minorities (national average is 15 percent)<\/li>\n<li>Students averaged\u00a0<strong>13,000 clinical hours<\/strong>\u00a0(national average is 4,055)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Students will attend an orientation the week of January 4, and classes begin the following week. Several admitted students attended Veterans Day programs on the UNC-CH campus; media coverage of these events is below.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a class=\"external-link\" title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dailytarheel.com\/article\/2015\/11\/vets-join-physician-assistant-program\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Daily Tar Heel<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UNC-Chapel Hill Physician Assistant program, which launches in January 2016, has admitted its inaugural class of students. UNC-Chapel Hill&#8217;s Department of Allied Health Sciences Physician Assistant faculty extended admission to the inaugural class of students in November 2015. Continue reading to learn more about this inaugural class. 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