Become a Preceptor for OBU’s Physician Associate Program
OBU has established clinical partnerships with major healthcare organizations, private practices, and smaller rural facilities in each geographic region. We continue to seek partnerships with quality medical practitioners in several specialties.
Why partner with OBU?
- High-quality PA students enhance clinical efficiency by assisting with patient care and documentation
- Recruit top local students for PA positions within your organization
- Flexible scheduling options and ongoing support provided by OBU
- Preceptors may be eligible for honorarium, CME and other benefits
What is a Preceptor?
Preceptors serve as professional role models and mentors, guiding students through real-world clinical practice. You will shape future providers by assigning patients, observing clinical skills, reviewing documentation, and offering insight based on your experience.
Who can precept?
Preceptors serve as professional role models and mentors, guiding students through real-world clinical practice. You will shape future providers by assigning patients, observing clinical skills, reviewing documentation, and offering insight based on your experience. We welcome partnerships with:
MDs and DOs
PAs and NPs
Certified Nurse Midwives
Facilities and care network systems
What sets OBU PA students apart?
OBU PA students are skilled, prepared, and ready to contribute. Before entering clinical rotations, they’ll complete:
- Rigorous training in medical knowledge, documentation procedures, and patient assessments.
- Hands-on skills development in labs designed to foster critical and clinical thinking, professionalism, and an ethical approach to patient care
- Structured distance-based curriculum that includes interactive, collaborative assignments with close oversight from our experienced faculty
- All compliance requirements including HIPAA, OSHA, immunization verification, drug screening and background checks. Proof of this information is provided by the program and the students.
OBU ensures students are prepared to care for the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual needs of individual patients across diverse populations and communities.
Preceptors are needed across these specialties:
- Family Medicine
- Internal Medicine
- Emergency Medicine
- Pediatrics
- Women’s Health
- Surgery
- Behavioral Health
- Elective Specialties
Become a Preceptor
Accreditation Information
Accreditation Review Commission on Education for the Physician Assistant (ARC-PA)
Oklahoma Baptist University’s (OBU) PA Program has applied for Accreditation - Provisional from the Accreditation Review Commission on Education for the Physician Assistant (ARC-PA). OBU’s PA Program anticipates matriculating its first class in January 2027, pending achieving Accreditation - Provisional status at the October 2026 ARC-PA meeting. Accreditation - Provisional is an accreditation status granted when the plans and resource allocation, if fully implemented as planned, of a proposed program that has not yet enrolled students appear to demonstrate the program’s ability to meet the ARC-PA Standards or when a program holding Accreditation-Provisional status appears to demonstrate continued progress in complying with the Standards as it prepares for the graduation of the first class (cohort) of students. If the Accreditation – Provisional status is not granted by the ARC-PA in October 2026, the first cohort will not matriculate in January 2027 as planned.
Higher Learning Commission
The proposed program is pending approval by the Higher Learning Commission.