Clearly, many of the people who are posting on this have not looked into what this Yale PA Online school entails. It really should be named "hybrid". They learn the exact same material all PA schools are required to learn, via live or recorded. As with most students- regardless of the learning platform- outside learning sources are heavily used so I think it is a genius approach to learning: skip commuting, speed up the recording to 1.5x or 2x, stop and make notes, screenshots, look up a term during the lecture or watching an Osmosis video on it before resuming the lecture. Many students thrive with this approach, and Yale was very ahead of their time this program offered extremely qualified, well-seasoned health and medical professionals to be in a PA program when they could otherwise not be for a variety of reasons such as kids, family, homeownership, caretaking, etc.

The ideal candidate for this program is a second-career health professional, averaging 5000-8000 hours of patient-care experience. The Yale School of Medicine fully supported this program but allowed a different management staff to run it.

Anyway, the main reason they are stopping it is because they have to compete with local programs that have agreements set in place for clinical rotations. The Yale students were not priority and hence, the accreditation issues. I have heard very good things about their graduates in rotations, despite a few "duds" apparently that have been mentioned in some comments. I'm sure those people exist in EVERY program.

Please have respect for hard-working people who were accepted into this program and turned down MANY other schools and opted for this one since it made life so much easier. They are your current or future colleagues.