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.