School of Rehabilitation and Medical Sciences

An athletic training student wearing a maroon polo and glasses sits in the Injury Care Center holding an ultrasound wand on a patient's right forearm that is resting on an olive colored towel. The patient is wearing a grey t-shirt.

The School of Rehabilitation and Medical Science is comprised of four groups:  Athletic Training, Nursing, Nutrition and Dietetics, and Physician Assistant. Athletic training offers a combined 3+2 Bachelor of Science and Master of Science in Athletic Training (3+2 BSAT/MSAT) program and a two-year MSAT program. Nursing offers the traditional Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) nursing major, the online RN-to-BSN degree completion program, and the Joint Nursing Education Pathway (JNEP) program. Nutrition and dietetics offers an undergraduate major in dietetics and a minor in nutrition. The Physician Assistant (PA) program is a 27-month graduate program that provides the academic and clinical training to be a certified and licensed PA.

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Athletic training student standing and examining the shoulder of a seated patient.

Athletic Training
Five nursing students wearing dark grey CMU scrubs surround a large patient mannequin. One student supports a wheelchair, two students hold the mannequin from the front while the last two support the mannequin from behind.

Nursing
A student wearing a white CMU cap, white apron, and maroon sweatshirt stands behind a stainless steel table holding a pepper grinder above a stainless steel mixing bowl. A green cutting board, knife, and other stainless steel pans are also on the table.

Nutrition and Dietetics
A PA student in black scrubs smiles while sitting in front of a young child with her left hand on the child's upper back. The child has long brown hair and is using a stethoscope to listen to her heart in the Mobile Health Central bus.

Physician Assistant