The mission of the Wagner College Physician Assistant Program also coordinates with the mission of Staten Island University Hospital.

Staten Island University Hospital is a not-for-profit, comprehensive, community health care system committed to meeting the health care needs of people on Staten Island and surrounding communities. The services provided by the hospital are directed by the needs of the communities it serves. SIUH believes health care is a right, not a privilege and that a fair and equitable heal-care system should be available to everyone.


By graduation, students with B.S./M.S. degrees in Advanced Studies in Physician Assistant should possess or have demonstrated:

1. knowledge/skills in history taking and performing physical examinations.
2. knowledge/skills in using laboratory and diagnostic studies.
3. knowledge/skills in formulating a most likely diagnosis.
4. knowledge/skills in clinical intervention.
5. knowledge/skills in clinical therapeutics.
6. knowledge/skills in health maintenance.
7. knowledge/skills in applying scientific concepts.
8. application of knowledge and skills corresponding to the following systems:

(a) cardiovascular
(b) pulmonary
(c) endocrine
(d) EENT (eyes, ears, nose, and throat)
(e) gastrointestinal
(f) genitourinary
(g) reproductive
(h) musculoskeletal
(i) neurological
(j) psychiatric
(k) dermatologic
(l) hematologic
(m) infectious disease

Residencies
The objective of the residency training program in surgery is the provision of diverse clinical experience in the field of surgery which includes the preoperative, intraoperative and postoperative management of the surgical patient. About Surgery Residency Program Crucial to this goal is the structured educational program upon which each resident builds a strong knowledge database. The clinical responsibilities of the surgical house officer increase in depth and complexity as the level of the training progresses. The educational progress, scholarly activity and the clinical activity of each resident are carefully supervised by an experienced attending staff guided by the program director. The surgical residency has an unblemished record of full accreditation by the Residency Review Committee.

The Surgical Program has trained graduates of medical students from across the United States of America. Recent students who have applied and been accepted to the Staten Island University Hospital Surgery Program are graduates from leading medical schools as: University of Chicago, Mount Sinai, Georgetown, SUNY Downstate and Stonybrook, University of Kansas, George Washington University, Albert Einstein, Pennsylvania State University, Hahneman, Tulane, Tufts, Creighton, Chicago Medical School, and the University of Florida. Over two-thirds of the graduates of the surgical training program have sought and obtained post-graduate specialty fellowships. Thus, the Department of Surgery at Staten Island University Hospital evaluates the training program in the following areas: