To apply to the Duke PA Program you must use CASPA or Centralized Application Service. After you have finished that application and submitted it, Duke will send you an e-mail that gives you authorization to access the Duke PA Program supplemental application. In addition you must have 1000 hours of direct patient care experience. Duke is very specific about what activities are accepted as “direct patient care” so be sure to consult their website to know for certain that your experience will qualify. You will need three recommendations, one of which must come form someone who has seen you provide patient care.

Usually, you must complete CASPA application after May 1 and before mid-October the year before you would enter as a student. You have until mid-November to complete your supplemental application.

The class that entered Duke in 2007 were chosen from 570 applications and had the following group qualifications:

• Over-all GPA 3.1-3.5
• Natural Science GPA 3.0-3.5
• Total Natural Science Credits 42-68
• GRE General test scores – Verbal 460-570, Quantitative 550-670, Analytical Writing 4.0-5.0
• Months of full-time patient care experience 10-34

Check back regularly as we will have all the other programs here eventually and we hope to distribute podcasts of interviews with administrators from as many programs as possible. Seven States – Alaska, Delaware, Hawaii, Mississippi, Rhode Island, Vermont and Wyoming do not have PA training programs.