Northeastern State to offer PA program in 2017

Tahlequah, Okla.-based Northeastern State University plans to offer a new physician assistant program beginning in 2017.

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The two-year program includes one year of in-classroom at Northeastern State and one year of clinical experience at Tahlequah (Okla.) City Hospital, the Cherokee Nation, the Muscogee (Creek) Nation and Northeastern Oklahoma Community Health Center, based in Hulbert.

The program will accept 16 students in its first class to start June 2017, pending approval from the Oklahoma State Medical Licensure Board.

 

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