Health ahead at UMES

gram will include didactic and experiential education components. Physician assistant students will complete over 2,000 hours in rotations including family medicine, general surgery and mental health training. UMES will award a Master ’s of Medical Science in Physician Assistant Studies to those who successfully complete the program.

“The university’s physician assistant program will be an integral part of the healthcare community by educating the next generation of healthcare providers to serve our local and surrounding communities,” said program director and department chairperson Dr. Tiffany Maxwell.

Seventeen students are slated to begin physician assistant classes in August 2020.

*The ARC-PA has granted Accreditation-Provisional status to the University of Maryland Eastern Shore Physician Assistant Program sponsored by the University of Maryland Eastern Shore.

Accreditation-Provisional is an accreditation status granted when the plans and resource allocation, if fully implemented as planned, of a proposed program that has not yet enrolled students appear to demonstrate the program’s ability to meet the ARC-PA Standards or when a program holding Accreditation-Provisional status appears to demonstrate continued progress in complying with the Standards as it prepares for the graduation of the first class (cohort) of students.

Accreditation-Provisional does not ensure any subsequent accreditation status. It is limited to no more than five years from matriculation of the first class.

Over 200 people were inside the Engineering and Aviation Science Complex to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the University of Maryland Eastern Shore’s aviation sciences program and its founder, Dr. Abraham Spinak. Dr. Spinak spent 33 years with the National Committee for Aeronautics (predecessor for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration) before his retirement and tenure at UMES. He died in