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The William and Loretta Harris Department of PA Studies

There are many good reasons to choose Wingate University's Physician Assistant Program. Our approach to education is student-centered. Our foundational principle is to be relationship-centered - and it shows from the first contact a prospective applicant makes with the Program and continues throughout the 27-months of education (and beyond). Our students are encouraged to be self-directed and life-long learners. It is our desire to encourage academic, professional, and interpersonal growth. Secondly, we use an interactive educational format that is proven to be exceptionally suited to the teaching of medicine – Team Based Learning (TBL). You can discover more about this process through our WUTV video.

Our goal is more than developing a nationally recognized PA program; our desire is to nurture outstanding health care providers. Our stated mission is “to educate Physician Assistants to become competent, compassionate and comprehensive health care providers, leaders in the health care community, continuously striving for excellence in their professional endeavors while compassionately providing for the health care needs of those they serve.”

The facilities we are using at this time are adequate but quite limiting. I am thrilled to announce the construction of Wingate University’s School of Health Sciences. It will be a 3-story facility on Wingate’s Campus and house the PA Program and School of Pharmacy. This will allow our program space to grow. We are planning to enter into this building sometime in 2011. I will keep you posted on its progress.

Allow me to provide some suggestions to prospective students. The first hurdle is to make sure you have prepared yourself academically – you must have a minimum grade point average on the 4 science prerequisites of 3.2 (on a 4-point scale). This is because the program is rigorous. Secondly, make sure that you have clinical experience that has allowed you to understand the US healthcare system and your future role within it as a clinician. In other words, be prepared to explain what you did and what skills and abilities you were able to develop. The final hurdle is the interview process. By definition, everyone who is invited for an interview is highly qualified.

Great students as well as those with outstanding clinical experiences may not do well during the interview. We are looking for future students that have a mature, confident, and professional bearing. We also want to see how you would relate to others and how you would approach your studies. During the interview you can expect to talk about your past academic and clinical experience. The interview is also an opportunity for you to “check out” our program – to see if there is a good fit.

Please feel free to contact our program at any time if we can provide you with more information. If you are ever in the Charlotte area please give us a call and drop by.

Sincerely yours,

Gary R. Uremovich DMin MPAS PA-C DFAAPA

Program Director

704-233-8051

pa@wingate.edu