PA Post-Professional Masters Program
Curriculum

The post-professional program is designed for practicing PAs who want to enhance the strength and depth of their medical knowledge and clinical reasoning and advance their skills in areas such as administration, management, education and research. All students in the Stony Brook Post-Professional program must complete a total of 30 credits within five (5) years in order to graduate. Eighteen credits are included in the core curriculum and include topics that are core competencies essential to optimizing practice skills. The remaining 12 credits are elective courses that allow students to personalize their graduate education (see table below).

Some courses are offered in the Department of Health Care Policy and Management within the School of Health Technology and Management. These courses offer our post-professional students the opportunity to interact with other health professionals including physicians, nurses, administrators and educators, and reinforce the program’s goals of strengthening inter-professional understanding and communication and the value of teamwork to ensure excellence in patient care. Although there is no required order of coursework, it is recommended that students begin with core courses. It is also recommended that students enroll in Research Writing for Health Professionals at the same time as, or after completion of, the Evidence-Based Medicine: Evaluating and Applying Clinical Research. The courses listed below are subject to change (please note that all courses are not offered each semester):

* These courses are pending approval at time of website design

** These courses can be applied toward the Advanced Certificate in Health Care Management Program