Online Master of Medical Science

• The MMS Program is an online, 33-credit program.
• The MMS Program accepts 20 transfer credits from your PA clinicals.
• The MMS Program is typically completed during the clinical year of PA studies.
• The online format provides flexibility during the clinical year of PA education.
• Provides structured coursework with prescribed due dates.
• Complete your coursework when your schedule permits.
• As designed, students can also complete the MMS Program shortly after the completion of their Physician Assistant studies.
• The program has a long history of successfully providing graduate education to affiliate PA students.
• There are more than 1,000 MMS Program graduates.
• The success of each MMS student is supported through the collaborative academic advising between Coordinator of Academic Advising, MMS faculty and staff, and affiliate PA program faculty and staff.
• Graduates of the MMS program will have demonstrated competence in both scholarship and research and are prepared to deliver health care more effectively in a variety of clinical practice and administrative settings.

Miami Dade College

Penn College of Technology

Past MMS Affiliations

• Anne Arundel Community College
• San Joaquin Valley Community College
• Riverside Community College: Moreno Valley
• Red Rocks Community College
• Stanford University Primary Care Associates Program

Contact Dr. Theresa M. Horner, NCC, LPC, MMS Program Chair, if you are an accredited PA program and wish to pursue a collaborative agreement with Saint Francis University to provide your students with a means to obtain a MMS degree concurrently with their PA training.

Upon completion of the MMS Program, graduates will be able to

• Use research to develop evidence base regimes/programs to address unmet needs.
• Critically analyze current pharmacotherapeutics and apply to disease processes in clinical practice.