Physician Assistant — Master of Science (MS) program guide

Current program identity

The current catalog establishes this program identity and curriculum. The registered degree audit controls the individual student's active plan.

The public catalog is the evidence source for program identity, curriculum headings, course codes, titles, and quarter credits. It is not a personal enrollment contract. Location, delivery format, state authorization, catalog version, transfer credit, prior credential, clinical clearance, course availability, and progression policy can change the sequence a registered student actually follows.

Start with the current degree audit. Match each active line to the same code below, preserve alternatives exactly as displayed, and ask an advisor about any mismatch before scheduling or ordering support. A code's presence in a catalog group proves public membership; it does not prove that every student takes it in the same quarter.

The classes, one by one

Open a code for its full class guide, all mapped program contexts, catalog description, Week boundary, rubric workflow, grade controls, and right-side navigation. Shared courses have one canonical page so guidance and links cannot drift between programs.

Didactic Phase

Program requirements

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Clinical Phase

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Program → class → Week or live syllabus

6 course codes in this path carry public-calendar-supported Week 1 through Week 11 position manuals. They are professional or didactic courses in a program that South University explicitly places on an 11-week calendar. The live Brightspace shell still controls the actual topic, assessment title, instructions, rubric, and deadline.

For every registered class, copy the exact session length, Week labels, start and end dates, due-day pattern, time zone, grading model, late rule, and final-submission window from Brightspace. Then capture the real work beneath each Week: discussion, reply, quiz, paper, case, project step, lab, simulation, practicum record, clinical requirement, or exam-preparation block.

A Week number is a position, not an assessment identity. Before drafting, preserve the exact live title, directions, rubric version, permitted sources and tools, template, point value, file type, and deadline. If an announcement changes any of them, the announcement joins the control packet.

Build the quarter board

Give each obligation one row with course, exact live label, Week or date, due time and time zone, points or weight, prerequisite, evidence need, current status, feedback status, and next action. Separate discussions, written submissions, quantitative work, quizzes, proctored preparation, group dependencies, labs, clinical activity, and practicum documentation. Their completion tests are different.

Work backward from the due time. Reserve intake for reading the shell and rubric, evidence time for sources or data, production time for the actual deliverable, and a final delivery pass for citation, template, accessibility, filename, export, and upload rendering. A five-week class compresses these blocks; it does not eliminate them.

Reconcile after every posted result. Record points earned and possible or the weighted-category result, calculate the remaining path without premature rounding, and note any separate exam-average, clinical, competency, attendance, or progression gate. The next action should be small enough to start immediately.

Turn the live rubric into acceptance tests

Directions and rubric are two contracts. Directions control the scenario, audience, length, format, tools, source limits, and submission rules. The rubric controls the evidence and reasoning that earn credit. Translate each requirement into a yes-or-no test and assign it a destination in the paper, calculation, presentation, care document, project file, or discussion.

Read verbs literally. “Describe” needs accurate coverage; “compare” needs a visible basis; “analyze” needs relationships and implications; “evaluate” needs criteria and a judgment; “recommend” needs a defensible choice tied to evidence. Flag universal words such as “all,” “each,” and “every.” They change the minimum complete response.

Run content QA before delivery QA. First check coverage, logic, evidence quality, calculations, and consistency across prose, tables, figures, slides, and appendices. Then check citation matching, template fields, accessibility, filename, file type, and rendered export. Do not let clean formatting hide a missing decision or let strong analysis fail on the wrong file.

Clinical, exam, and professional boundaries

Students perform patient care, clinical decisions, skills, simulations, laboratory activity, practicum and rotation hours, preceptor communication, signatures, experience logs, group participation, identity-verified activity, and final submission. Protected health, client, employee, and proprietary information must be removed before any tutoring review.

Proctored, standardized, competency, dosage-calculation, readiness, and licensure-related assessments are preparation-only. Legitimate support includes a study blueprint, practice questions, rationale review, calculation practice, concept explanation, rehearsal, and readiness decisions. It does not include entering an authenticated environment or completing the real assessment.

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