Physician Assistant Program Resources

Not sure what to expect on your test day? Let us tell you! Check out the information below, which will prepare you for what you can expect at the test center. It includes what you need to bring with you, how and when you can take breaks and what to do if you experience a problem at the center. Please note: the CAQ exams now have 15 minutes of break time.

Board style questions on topics defined by NCCPA. NOTE: This resource is provided by Duke PA Program for DPAP students. All students will receive an email with instructions on how to set up a personal account.

Once you are registered for PANCE (able to do this within 90 days of when you are eligible to take the exam), you will see this option. More information given by DPAP faculty prior to graduation.

Comprehensive Didactic, EOR or PANCE prep with 2,000+ case-based, exam-like questions, rationals with visuals, digital flashcards with spaced repetition. Online notebook to organize concepts, tracks your performance and improvement by topic, has a mobile app, also offers 1,500 flashcards.

NOTE: Only $29 (90% off) for Duke students when they sign up using the above link. (The big discount may make this worthwhile to some even if for just some sections.) This course is a modern, mobile-friendly program for students that like to learn by doing. It is a full Step 1 course that uses spaced repetition-powered quizzes to track and improve your memory retention and mastery of each USMLE Step 1 learning objective.

NCCPA periodically conducts practice analysis studies to ensure that our examinations include the content most appropriate for the certification of physician assistants. Board Certified PAs are involved in every step of that process: providing input into the development of the survey instrument, completing the survey that is disseminated to the entire profession, and reviewing the response data to help develop recommendations for the exam blueprint. Based on the information gleaned from our most recent practice analysis, minor revisions have been made to the PANCE blueprint that will become effective in 2025.

A variety of products including a 33 Days to Pass the PANCE program plus a variety of tools designed to enhance your educational journey whether preparing for your PANCE, your PACKRAT or your next EOR.

Sixty-three hours of content with videos, written summaries, and slides—updated annually to stay in line with the latest NCCPA. The Qbank (with 2250 questions) gets smarter as you go, zeroing in on what you need most with filterable questions for PANCE or PANRE. Includes a pass guarantee—pass the board exam or get your money back. Trial: Get access to (almost) all of AAPA PANCE/PANRE Review for 4 hours. Best to wait until you have the time to explore.

Several products including their Qbank with over 2,000 exam-like questions, an On Demand PANCE Course with 24 hours of on demand videos, and a live online PANCE course with the ability to Interact with a teacher in a live, online classroom.

Pocket Passed: Physician Assistant is a concise collection of the 1,500 most commonly asked questions derived straight from the PANCE/PANRE blueprint to help you pass the boards and master your clinicals. With contributions from expert faculty, Pocket Passed, provides streamlined insights into the most important questions you need to have mastered. Study anywhere with the web and mobile (iOS & Android) apps to ensure that you will never be unprepared or left behind! Use the secrets from Pocket Passed to help you succeed.

Flashcards available to review the hundreds of concepts you must know for PANCE. NOTE: A student reports the sample seems to be more like paragraphs of a book chopped to flash card size.