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Program Mission and Goals

Mission:  Our mission is to develop extraordinarily competent and compassionate physician associates to provide evidence-based healthcare to Oklahomans, emphasizing rural and underserved communities.

Goals:

  1. Maintain a 95% or better three-year graduation rate for students matriculating into the program.
    • The current three-year graduation rate is 95.4%
  2. Maintain at least 50% of clinical rotation sites in low-income zip codes as defined by the Health Resource and Services Administration (HRSA).
    • Currently, 79.26% of clinical rotation sites are in low-income zip codes as determined by HRSA.
  3. Maintain a five-year first-time average pass rate on the PANCE at or above the national pass rate.
    • The program’s five-year pass rate is 93% and the national pass rate is 93%.
  4. Create a program learning environment that promotes a sense of belonging, inclusion, mutual respect, and support as measured by the student survey.
    • Student satisfaction with the program's learning environment as it relates to belonging, inclusion, mutual respect, and support received a rating of greater than 4 on a 5-point scale on the most recent student survey.

Additional Performance Indicators:

PANCE Pass Rate: (Click Here)

  • 5-year first-time taker pass rate for the OUHSC Program: 93%
  • 5-year first-time taker pass rate for the National average: 93%

 

GRADUATION RATE:

 

  Graduated Classes
Class of 2020 Class of 2021 Class of 2022 Class of 2023
Maximum entering class size (as approved by ARC-PA) 57 57 57 57
Entering class size 52 51 50 49
Graduates 48 50 48 49
* Attrition rate 7.69% 3.85% 6.00% 0%
**Graduation rate 92.31% 96.15% 94.00% 100%

 

*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.