School of PA Studies Mission
To prepare and mentor students with innovative curricula to provide primary and other specialty care for diverse global communities focusing on vulnerable, underserved, and rural populations.
Information for Preceptors
A clinical preceptor is a vital part of the School of PA Studies’ teaching team. Preceptors supervise, mentor, observe, and provide feedback for PA students as they further develop their clinical reasoning and technical skills.
Rotations run from August to August and include nine 5-week rotations, plus three Professional Practice Seminar (PPS) weeks back on campus, and a two-month online seminar in Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion in Health Care. If you are interested in precepting a Pacific PA student, scroll down to the Precepting Opportunities section for a link to an online interest form.
All students are required to complete core rotations in family medicine, internal medicine, inpatient medicine, surgery, emergency medicine, behavioral health, women's health, and pediatrics.
Pacific PA students complete BLS, ACLS, PALS, HIPAA, BBP, and OSHA training prior to the start of their clinical phase.
Clinical Phase Placements: Coast to Coast
We are a travel program!
States that are red on the above map of the US indicate that there is at least one site there that is currently taking PA students for rotations during the Clinical Phase.
Our students get to:
- Complete clinical rotations all over the United States
- Travel to and learn in diverse environments
- Have rotations within underserved communities in The Rural and Underserved Service Track (TRUST)
- Learn how to treat patients with varying degrees of access to resources
- Discover where they want to live and work after graduation
Precepting Opportunities
Interested in precepting? Complete our 5-question .
During the clinical phase of their training, students participate in a variety of rotation types. We offer precepting opportunities to PAs, NPs, MDs and DOs in the following practice settings and beyond:
- Family Medicine
- Internal Medicine
- Inpatient Medicine
- General Surgery
- Surgical subspecialties
- Dermatology
- Emergency Medicine
- Rural/Underserved
- Women’s Health
- Pediatrics
- Behavioral Health
- Urgent Care
Current Tracks
Our program also invites preceptor availability for opportunities in our specialized tracks:
Hawaii Outreach Initiative: Designed for students with a strong connection to Hawaii and who plan to return to the islands to practice as a PA
The Rural and Underserved Service Track (TRUST): Pacific PA’s AHEC Scholars program, designed to prepare students to work with medically complex, medically vulnerable, and medically underserved communities
Preceptors may share precepting responsibilities with their healthcare team.
Preceptor Benefits
Preceptors for our program enjoy benefits that include:
- Giving back to the profession
- Development of leadership skills
- New connections with next generation of providers
- Chance to determine fit prior to making a job offer
- Adjunct clinical faculty appointment
- Lecturing opportunities (in person and remote)
- Recognition certificate
- Free access to °ÅÀÖÊÓƵ’s online library database (including Up-To-Date)
- Category I CME for PA-C preceptors and Category II CME for NP, MD, DO preceptors