PASA aims to foster and support a thriving community of students based on diverse interests, backgrounds and the commonality of being enrolled in the Consortium of PA Education Physician Assistant professional degree program at the University of Toronto in collaboration with Northern Ontario School of Medicine (NOSM) and The Michener Institute for Applied Health Sciences. As well, PASA will aim to identify and implement students’ views, demands as well as cater to the specific and unique needs of Physician Assistant students within the Department of Family and Community Medicine (DFCM) in the Faculty of Medicine, in regards to promoting the Physician Assistant profession, student academic needs, student social needs and any other needs identified by PASA.