Graduate Outcomes

Graduate Performance

Major outcomes measures related to our program’s performance include our graduates’ Physician Assistant National Certifying Examination (PANCE) scores and job placement rates. The student attrition data for our program is available below.

Elon PA Student Attrition

Graduated Classes	Class of 2021 (Feb)	Class of 2021 (Dec)	Class of 2022
Maximum entering class size (as approved by ARC-PA	38	38	38
Entering class size	38	39	38
Graduates	38	39	36
*Attrition rate	0	0	0.05%
**Graduation rate	100	100	94.75

*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.
Comments: The Class of 2022 included one student who withdrew for personal reasons and one student who took a medical leave of absence and will rejoin with the 2023 cohort.

 

 

Specialty areas of practice:

• Primary care
• Internal medicine
• Surgery
• Psych (high to low)

 

Specialty areas of practice:

• Surgery
• Primary care/Urgent care
• Emergency medicine
• Internal medicine
• Psych (high to low)

 

Specialty areas of practice:

• Internal medicine including general and subspecialties to include pulmonology, cardiology, heme/onc, neurology, and critical care (9)
• Surgery (general and subspecialty) (8)
• Emergency Medicine (4)
• Other primary care/urgent care (6)

 

Specialty Areas of Practice:

• Surgery (9)
• Pediatrics (6)
• Internal Medicine (5)
• Cardiology (3)
• Emergency Medicine (2)
• Critical Care (2)

 

Specialty Areas of Practice:

• Internal Medicine (9)
• Emergency Medicine (7)
• Surgery including trauma, general, neuro, vascular (8)
• Orthopedics (6)
• Pediatrics (5)
• Cardiology (2)
• GI (2)

 

Specialty Areas of Practice:

• Internal Medicine (8)
• Surgery including ortho, peds, general, vascular (13)
• Emergency Medicine (5)
• GI (2)
• Pediatrics (2)
• Other (7)