The Oklahoma Baptist University (OBU) Physician Associate (PA) program offers a rigorous 24-month curriculum.
Our innovative hybrid structure combines interactive, faculty-led online coursework with high-intensity campus lab immersions. While lectures and case discussions occur in a virtual environment, essential clinical procedures, simulation, and assessment occur face-to-face under direct faculty supervision.
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24 months
104 credit hours
Lab immersions in
Shawnee, OK
January 11, 2027
Oklahoma Baptist University’s (OBU) PA Program has applied for Accreditation - Provisional from the Accreditation Review Commission on Education for the Physician Assistant (ARC-PA). OBU’s PA Program anticipates matriculating its first class in January 2027, pending achieving Accreditation - Provisional status at the October 2026 ARC-PA meeting. Accreditation - Provisional is an accreditation status granted when the plans and resource allocation, if fully implemented as planned, of a proposed program that has not yet enrolled students appear to demonstrate the program’s ability to meet the ARC-PA Standards or when a program holding Accreditation-Provisional status appears to demonstrate continued progress in complying with the Standards as it prepares for the graduation of the first class (cohort) of students. If the Accreditation – Provisional status is not granted by the ARC-PA in October 2026, the first cohort will not matriculate in January 2027 as planned.