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Program Outcomes & Statistics

 

Program Goals

The Augsburg PA Program aims to accomplish the following goals:

GOAL #1: To increase the number of students from underrepresented groups in medicine (URiM)* into the PA profession.

STATUS (9/2023): Augsburg PA is exceeding this goal! Over the past 3 years, 29.3of Augsburg PA matriculants self-identify as URiM and 44.4% self-identify as Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC).

Benchmarks: ≥25% of matriculated PA students are from URiM groups.
            *The AAMC definition of underrepresented in medicine means those racial and ethnic populations that are underrepresented in the medical profession relative to their numbers in the general population.

Metric: Admissions data, PAEA Data

 

GOAL #2: To maintain a competitive first-time PANCE pass rate.

STATUS (10/2023)Augsburg PA is not meeting this goal.  For the most recently published data from 2023, Augsburg PA’s annual first-time PANCE pass rate is less than the 92% National Average.
We have recognized a downward trend across the country and within our graduates in PANCE performance and are proactively addressing this concern in our didactic, clinical, and PANCE preparation curriculum. We are also actively working with those 2023 graduates who were unsuccessful on their first attempt to pass on their second attempt, as we wholeheartedly believe in their preparation and ability to be highly competent PAs.

Benchmark: PA Program annual first-time PANCE pass rate is above the national average.

Metric: NCCPA Program and National Data

 

GOAL #3: To model PA professional responsibility through civic, leadership, and/or community engagement*.

STATUS (9/2023): Augsburg PA is meeting this goal! 100% of our students in the 2023, 2024, and 2025 graduating cohorts and 100% of our faculty have participated in at least one civic, leadership, or community engagement activity sponsored by the program.

Benchmarks: 100% of matriculated PA students and PA faculty participate in at least one civic, leadership, or community engagement activity while enrolled in the program.
*Examples include Augsburg Health Commons, MN Academy of PAs, Special Olympics Health Screening, Face-2-Face, Feed My Starving Children, Project Access, Anishinabe Wakaigun, and Women of Nations Shelter.

Metric: Participation documentation submitted to program director

 


 

Learning Outcomes and Competencies

Competence of the Augsburg PA Learning Outcomes for each student is assessed across program curriculum and confirmed through summative evaluation (End of Curriculum Exam and OSCE) prior to graduation. These are the program required competencies for entry level practice, as defined by the PA profession:

 


 

PA NATIONAL CERTIFYING EXAMINATION (PANCE)

Augsburg PAs have a proven track record of success and graduates of our PA program consistently pass the PA National Certifying Exam (PANCE) at a rate that is at or higher than the national average. Our current 5 year average for first-time takers is 94% and 98.8% overall.

The majority of our new PA graduates were employed within six months of graduation. In addition, Augsburg PAs continue to be innovative in identifying and creating new areas for PAs to practice medicine. They report employment in primary care, women’s health, emergency medicine, urgent care, psychiatry, surgical specialties, and internal medicine sub-specialties.

 

PANCE PERFORMANCE

See below for the first-time taker pass rate and score information for physician assistant students who graduated in 2019–2022. PANCE pass rates will be displayed for public information as graduates complete testing.

 

Class
Number of Test Takers in the Cohort
Augsburg PA PANCE 1st Time
Pass Rate
National PANCE Pass Rate
(# of exams taken and passed)
Augsburg PA PANCE
All-time Pass Rate
2018
30
100%
97%
100%
2019
29
100%
91%
100%
2020
31
97%
93%
100%
2021
31
91%
91%
97%
2022
32
94%
89%
97%
2023
28/32*
(not all graduates have taken the PANCE)
79%*
(Results of final PANCE outcomes pending)
90%
TBD
All-Exam Taker Five-Year Average
94%
(2019-2023)
93%
(2019-2023)
98.8%
(2018-2022)

See Augsburg’s Full PANCE Results (PDF)

 

 

ARC-PA Student Attrition and Graduation Rates

Graduated Classes
Class of 2021
Class of 2022
Class of 2023
Maximum entering class size
(as approved by ARC-PA)
33
33
33
Entering class size
33
33
33
Graduates
31
32
32
*Attrition rate
2/33 = 0.06 (6%)
1/33 = 0.03 (3%)
1/33 = 0.03  (3%)
**Graduation Rate
31/33 = 0.94 (91%)
32/33 = 0.97 (97%)
32/33 = 0.97 (97%)

 

*Attrition rate calculation: Number of students who attritted from cohort divided by the entering class size.
**Graduation rate: Number of cohort graduates divided by the entering class size.

(One student decelerated from Class of 2021, graduated with Class of 2023)