Disclosure: The University of Tennessee Health Science Center Physician Assistant Program has received approval from the Tennessee Higher Education Commission and is applying for provisional accreditation from the Accreditation Review Commission on Education for the Physician Assistant (ARC-PA). The University of Tennessee Health Science Center Physician Assistant Program anticipates matriculating its first class in January of 2014, pending ARC-PA provisional accreditation in September of 2013. Provisional accreditation is an accreditation status for a new PA program that has not yet enrolled students, but at the time of its comprehensive accreditation review, has demonstrated its preparedness to initiate a program in accordance with the accreditation Standards. Matriculation of students into the program is contingent upon achieving approval and accreditation with these bodies.