Mission, Vision & DEI

Mission Statement

The Department of Physician Assistant Education supports the University’s mission by educating Physician Assistants to deliver high quality competent and compassionate health care as team members within the health care delivery system.

Vision Statement

The Western University of Health Sciences will continue to be greatly respected and nationally recognized as an innovative leader in Physician Assistant education. Our faculty will continue to be leaders in our profession as educators and clinicians. Our faculty will continue to educate a diverse student body who will provide compassionate and comprehensive primary care medicine.

The program will continue to foster student attributes that will enhance their role as effective health care professionals.

Our students, graduates and faculty will continue to serve in key leadership positions on a local, state and national level, to influence the future of the physician assistant profession, while striving to continue personal and professional development.

Physicians and health care delivery teams will seek our graduates. Through these partnerships, comprehensive patient care will be accessible for all populations.

Diversity Statement

The students, faculty, administration, and staff of Western University of Health Sciences (WesternU) place great value on diversity. For us, it is a philosophy of inclusion, with pluralism and academic freedom as its foundation. WesternU is committed to an open environment that promotes, accepts, and celebrates different points of view. WesternU is a community of individuals in which diversity is recognized as being the core of our intellectual, social, cultural, physical, emotional, and moral lives. We are enriched by our encounters with one another, and we strive to learn from each other in an atmosphere of positive engagement and mutual respect. Our understanding and acceptance of one another in the campus environment contributes to our ability to care for our patients, who live in a diverse society.

We acknowledge our guaranteed rights of free expression under the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States. However, we also hold unique responsibilities as individuals, answerable for our own behavior and fully accountable for our actions. Seeking balance between rights and responsibilities makes us keenly aware of the dangers of defamatory, libelous, or obscene behavior, the value of community and the importance of respecting our differences and commonalties.

As individuals committed to health professions education in the osteopathic tradition, we embrace the important principle of caring for the whole person-in body, mind and spirit.