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In May, 'The New AAPA'

Published November 20, 2008 9:42 AM by Stephen Cornell

The American Academy of Physician Assistants is promoting a "grand reveal" of the new AAPA in May at the annual conference in San Diego.

AAPA's 37th Annual PA Conference is not one to miss! The exciting new look, though dramatic, is just a small indicator of the monumental changes AAPA is undergoing to culminate in a grand reveal of "the New AAPA" at annual conference next May.

We have much in store for you that will significantly IMPACT you, your practice and everyday life as a physician assistant which will result in better patience care… Do not miss this conference!

Watch for the Advance Registration brochure due to land in your mailbox at the end of November!

AAPA leaders have been talking about huge changes at the academy all year, but so far there has been little change in the academy's public face.

Hopefully, the New AAPA will be worth the wait. The profession really needs a strong, relevant AAPA.

I understand that the AAPA is restructuring for the long-term and wants to take its time to get things right. From what I've heard, I think the academy is moving in a positive direction. But I don't think it's a good idea to wait so long to reveal the changes.

The old AAPA unfortunately alienated many PAs and drove them away from the academy in the years before the hiring of new executive vice president and CEO Bill Leinweber. This delay in the AAPA's new day has only given those PAs more time to drift even farther away.

I'd really like to see the AAPA begin to reveal its new face gradually over the next seven months. Give PAs something now. By the end of May, the message will be less effective.

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I quit the AAPA many years ago, because they did NOT promote the PA profession in much needed national ads, nor in spirit. They did not represent me.%0d%0a%0d%0aI await to see movement in getting rid of the whole re-testing part of the recertification process, no one cares, MD's don't care, the public doesn't care, the NP's, RN's, PT's, RT's, etc. all laugh at our stupididty of self anxiety/deprecation every 6-7 years. When are we going to stop being the laughing stock of the entire allied health field ?    I will wait to see if new mgt. is responsive.

jay lee, neurosurgery - PA, thespinalcarecenter December 2, 2008 10:28 PM
bakersfield CA

I appreciate that the AAPA will have a changing face  for the future. It has needed a "facelift" for quite a few years. *I agree with Steve that the academy needs to "leak" some of the changes gradually and starting soon as there are many disenfranchised PAs that can be won back by "inclusion."

The banner slogan " A Unified Voice" can only become reality when the cloak and dagger undergoes a metamorphisis and becomes "communiciating to all of the profession." Communication cannot afford to delayed as it serves as  a sort of foreplay that is neccessary in bringing things to a next higher plane, one of those things, being membership. Continued faithful membership that will include such things a mentoring and finding roatation sites can be the fruit of honest, positive relationships. We need to see the Academy as a big brother who not only negotiates but who will get its nose bloodied by fighting for the needs of the PAs in the markerplace, in the trenches and in the profession as a whole. We cannot accquiesce to the medical scieties over every issue that is presented, we need to fight with passion to see the proper legislation and laws passed so that we will be competitive in todays medicine.

Bob Blumm, MA, PA-C, DFAAPA

Immediate Past President, ACC

Bob Blumm November 21, 2008 8:59 PM
NY

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