** updated March 2020 **
Location: Salinas, CA
Accreditation Status: Provisional
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Number of students: 33
Application Deadline: September 1
Admissions: Rolling
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Start date: January
Interviews: May-June 2020
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Length of Program: 28 months
Public/Private: Public
Tuition: $89,498
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HCE: 1,000 Hours
GPA: Overall: 3.0, Science GPA: 3.0
Required Standardized Testing: None
Shadowing: 8 hours
LOR: Two Required, one should be from a PA, NP, MD or DO
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The Good Stuff:
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Applicants are expected to have 500 hours of community service experience which benefits underserved or disadvantaged populations
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The final hybrid semester includes clinical, didactic and professional components and the graduate project. The students will be in clinic on Mondays and Tuesdays and in the classroom Wednesday – Friday
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Students take 3 semesters of conversational Spanish during didactic year
Program Link: https://csumb.edu/mspa
** All information is from The Applicant’s Manual of Physician Assistant Programs 2020 and the Program’s website. For corrections and comments, please fill out this form.
