Yale University Online Physicians Assistant Degree?

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I'm implying that Georgetown was able to incorporate clinicals. Yale was proposing something similar. The license has nothing to do with it.

The license has everything to do with it. A nurse in graduate school has a lot of knowledge and a lot of clinical experience that was obtained on the way to that initial licensure. The graduate level clinical training is additional training, not initial training. The entry level PA student doesn't have that initial foundational knowledge.

There is a reason the onsite in-person clinical model persists. When students do clinicals in the same locale as the school, the quality control of clinical training is much easier to scale and maintain. That is lost when individual students are having clinical experiences in remote locations. When a clinical cohort is supervised by a faculty member at a hospital, there are conferences right before reporting to the floor and right after. That's not going to happen in the remote model. There's a lot of learning that takes place student to student at large university affiliated hospitals. Having peers to discuss things with is important.

Direct entry MSN programs first put the student through either a BSN program or the equivalent thereof. The student becomes an RN before beginning advanced practice training. Some programs grant the BSN along the way, others don't and grant only the MSN at the end. The total number of semester hours might be less than a traditional BSN followed by a traditional MSN, but there aren't any clinical shortcuts.