Alumni & Preceptor Newsletter - Fall 2018 2018 12 13 PA Newsletter - Issue 4
LAKE ERIE COLLEGE ALUMNI AND PRECEPTOR NEWSLETTER
Fall 2018 | Issue 4
ALUMNI & Preceptor
NEWSLETTER
FALL 2018
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Excellence in Action
PA Program Excels At Every Measure
by Sean Kramer MSPAS, PA-C
Three themes keep coming up. When
students, faculty, staff, and employers were
asked about what makes a Lake Erie
College PA student unique, three
consistent themes emerged:
• Knowledgeable
• Personable
• Motivated
From our staff, faculty, administrators,
students, alumni, preceptors, and to
employers, our program has always been
centered around its people. While a
program often measures its quality by the
outcomes of its students, I would like to
think that it is our culture that leads to
these great outcomes. While most agree
that our students are knowledgeable,
personable, and motivated, I believe all of
the people who have roles in our program
possess those same qualities. Together, all
of our greatest recent accomplishments
were possible from these attributes.
As you may be aware, 100% of all of the
students from the Class of 2018 passed
their PANCE board exam on the first
attempt! This makes a 100% PANCE pass
rate for the Class of 2016, 2017, and 2018
since the program’s inception. In addition,
students scored higher in almost every
system and task than the national average.
Our students have shown they have an
incredible amount of knowledge that is
necessary for superior medical care.
This could not have been met without all
of our dedicated faculty and preceptors
spending thousands of hours preparing our
students to provide the best healthcare
possible.
Even more recently, the program received
ARC-PA Accreditation-Continued status
for 10 years! As you may be aware, the
program was placed on Accreditation-
Probation status in 2016 after a monitoring
provisional visit. This was primarily in
relation to addressing the Programmatic
assessment process. The faculty and staff
spent hundreds of hours seeking
consultation, identifying best practices,
developing a plan, making multiple
improvements throughout every phase of
the program, preparing a comprehensive
final provisional application, and preparing
hundreds of documents of evidence.
Despite the challenge we faced, the faculty
and staff showed amazing motivation to
demonstrate the excellence of the program.
As a result, the program received the
maximum accreditation possible!
While student board certification and
accreditation are some of our greatest
successes, there are innumerable others.
Other recent successes include preparing a
mission trip to Honduras for medical,
dental, and vision care, fundraising for
Coats for Kids, fundraising over 500 cans
of food, obtaining a nccPA Oral Health
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grant, development of ultrasound into
the didactic curriculum, utilizing the
simulation center at Akron City Hospital,
and the improvement of OSCE
assessments. And this does not capture
all of it.
The common theme among all of our
success is that it was all our people working
together, motivated to do the best job
possible. The future is bright with the
Lake Erie College PA Program. Stay thirsty
for knowledge, personable, and motivated.
INTERESTED IN HELPING?
If you are interested in interviewing
applicants for our PA Program beginning
this fall, please contact Clinical Assistant
Professor Jennifer Sample at [email protected]
or Program Assistant Kelly Florentine at
[email protected].
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