Curriculum Review
April 2011
Prior to submitting an application to the ARC-PA, each clinical postgraduate PA program must identify the panel of reviewers it plans to use to review its curriculum content and required clinical experiences. The ARC-PA must pre-approve the panel from which review of their curriculum will be solicited.
Contacting the Panel for Curriculum Review
After identifying the panel of individuals to review the program’s curricula, the program should contact the ARC-PA to obtain ARC-PA approval of the panel members. The program must provide the ARC-PA with complete contact information for the individual panel members. Complete contact information includes, name, title, complete mailing address, day phone, email address.The ARC-PA will add one panel review member to those identified by the program from a pool of PA educators familiar with the accreditation process.
All panel members will submit their completed review forms to the designated ARC-PA staff member for compilation. A compiled copy will be sent to the program director by the ARC-PA.
The required curriculum review forms are available below.
The program may want to make the following materials available to curriculum reviewers to assist them with the review:
Syllabi, Competencies and Objectives, A Guide for Clinical Postgraduate PA Program Faculty, April 2007.
Accreditation standards for clinical postgraduate PA programs.
Materials
Directions to the program about the curriculum review process can be found here (revised April 2011)
The form to be used by the program for submitting curriculum review materials to the panel members can be found here.
The reviewer form to be used by individual members of the panel for reviewing the curriculum may be be found here. This may be completed electronically and returned via email, or printed and completed and returned by mail. Technical directions related to completing the form are available here.