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Provisional Accreditation Conference : (1.24.2012) The ARC-PA will be hosting a conference November 29-30, 2012 specifically for select individuals from institutions in the process of developing a new PA program in preparation for applying to the ARC-PA for provisional accreditation between 2014 - 2016. More information and registration materials can be found here.
Summer Accreditation Workshop (1.30.2012) The ARC-PA will hold its annual summer accreditation workshop designed for program faculty, staff and deans July 8-10, 2012. Programs are limited to two attendees per program. Priority will be given to individuals from those programs scheduled for site visits between January 2013 and December 2016 and to individuals who did not attend the workshops in the summers of 2009, 2010 or 2011. This workshop is not open to individuals from unaccredited developing programs. Click here for workshop page.
NEW Site Visitor Preparation: (12.6.2011): The ARC-PA is seeking applications from individuals interested in volunteering their time as ARC-PA site visitors. Site visitors are selected from a pool of PA and physician educators, clinically practicing PAs, and others involved in PA education. They are appointed for an initial 3-year term and are asked to participate in 1-3 visits per year. Site visitors receive no compensation for their services. Travel and other direct costs associated with the site visits are reimbursed by the ARC-PA.
Prior to participating in the site visit process, prospective site visitors must first apply to the ARC-PA and be selected from the pool of applicants. The next new site visitor workshop will be held in St. Louis, Missouri, April 20-22, 2012. The workshop will begin at 8 am on Friday April 20, and end at noon, Sunday, April 22, 2012. THE DEADLINE TO APPLY FOR THIS WORKSHOP (1.26.2012) HAS PASSED.
Important Notes to Programs (10.6.2011) The ARC-PA has published a Notes to Programs document that includes information from its most recent commission meeting. This edition of the Notes includes several important points, including clarifying updates to the Standards, information on the accreditation program management portal, data analysis and the self-study report, the Standards degree deadline, the summative evaluation, posting of PANCE results on the web and more. The Notes document is being sent to all program directors by email, is posted on the Accreditation Resources page of this web site, and is available here.
Accreditation Resource Page Updated (10.6.2011) Visit the Accreditation Resources page for a revised Data Analysis resource and a document providing clarification on the Standards degree deadline requirement.
Accreditation Actions (10.3.2011) The accreditation actions resulting from the ARC-PA Commission meeting in September, 2011, are posted on the Accreditation Actions page. Data on the number of accredited program and the work before the ARC-PA in 2011 is on the Program Data page.
ARC-PA Annual Report and Portal (6.28.2011) All program directors should have received an email from the ARC-PA Data Portal Team asking them to validate their email and establish a user ID to allow them to begin using the ARC-PA data portal, and thereby complete the first ARC-PA annual report required of all accredited entry level programs. To date many have not yet done this first required critical step. The initial completion of the annual report will take some time and programs are encouraged to work on data submission over the next few months.
The ARC-PA will be hosting a session at the fall PAEA meeting in New Orleans for all programs, answering questions and highlighting various components of the data portal and reports. The final due date for this initial submission is January 1, 2012. At that date, the program’s data will be captured as final for this reporting period. Programs will still have access to the portal data and may update it for their own use within the program and as a means of remaining up to date with their own data collection as it relates to accreditation.
Those who need help recalling how to access the portal should contact Mercedes Beard in the ARC-PA offices.
Clinical Postgraduate PA Program Accreditation Process Revised (4.5.2011) The ARC-PA recently revised the accreditation process for clinical postgraduate PA programs. The revised process may be found on the Process page in the Postgraduate Program section of this web site.
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