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Accreditation agency approves NC A&T physician assistant program

Image shows entrance to North Carolina A&T University
Image courtesy North Carolina A&T University

North Carolina Agricultural & Technical State University will welcome 21 students into a new health care program when school begins this fall.

The Accreditation Review Commission on Education for the Physician Assistant has cleared the way for the university to begin teaching students in its master’s program.

Nicole Burwell is the director of the program at North Carolina A&T. She says graduates will help address disparities in underserved and under-resourced areas.

”It is an opportunity for North Carolina A&T to be able to graduate competent, culturally sensitive health care providers,” she says. “Allowing for providers to look more like the community that they represent.”

Students in the PA program will train at the Union Square Campus, a medical training facility shared with Cone Health, Guilford Technical Community College and the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

Paul Garber is a Winston-Salem native and an award-winning reporter who began his journalism career with an internship at The High Point Enterprise in 1993. He has previously worked at The Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, The News and Record of Greensboro and the Winston-Salem Journal, where he was the newspaper's first full-time multimedia reporter. He won the statewide Media and the Law award in 2000 and has also been recognized for his business, investigative and multimedia reporting. Paul earned a BA from Wake Forest University and has a Master's of Liberal Arts degree from Johns Hopkins University and a Master's of Journalism and Mass Communication from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He lives in Lewisville.

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