Idaho State University

Mission Statement & Goals

The mission of the Idaho State University Physician Assistant Program is to:

   Curriculum

Provide a quality graduate medical education that emphasizes critical thinking, problem solving,and service-learning in a curriculum that is technologically enhanced, research oriented, and evidence-based, with strength in both the basic and clinical medical sciences.

    Students

Seek and cultivate a culturally, ethnically, and socially diverse student body which will demonstrate the finest attributes of professional health care practitioners, including intellectual curiosity, insight, maturity, ethical behavior, critical thinking, empathy, strong interpersonal skills, a service orientation, and a commitment to evidence-based practice, research and life-long learning.

   Faculty

Employ, develop and maintain outstanding faculty who are appropriate in expertise and number to the needs of the program, represent the diversity of the region, are student-centered and committed to the educational needs of the students as well as excellence in teaching, scholarly research, service, and continuing clinical competence.

   Affiliations

Establish and maintain, for the educational benefit of program students, clinical, educational, and other relationships with the medical community and other individuals and organizations that seek to enhance healthcare to rural and other medically underserved populations of the state, region, and beyond.

   Service

Nurture in students a sensitivity to the needs of others and a desire and willingness to provide service of the highest quality, in the most caring manner, to all people, especially to those individuals and groups that are medically underserved, regardless of biological, social, political, economic, religious, or other status.