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"No Such Thing as Too Many PAs"
November 24, 2009 9:52 AM by Heather Simons
AAPA president Stephen Hanson has published an opinion piece, " 'Make more of them' isn't the only solution to America's physician shortage ," in The Bakersfield Californian endorsing PAs as an integral part of the solution to a growing physician shortage. Read More...
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In TIME, Surgeon Slights PAs
October 23, 2009 12:28 PM by Heather Simons
In an article posted today, orthopedic surgeon and TIME Magazine writer Scott Haig discusses the nation's shortage of surgical assistants--and slights PAs as overly expensive and potentially inadequate "alternatives" to a surgical resident or fellow. Read More...
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Hofstra PA Students Try Matchmaking
October 19, 2009 3:49 PM by Heather Simons
On Tuesday, October 13, in honor of Physician Assistant Week, PA students at Hofstra University held a day-long bone marrow drive. In partnership with the Be the Match program, the school's Society of Physician Assistant Students encouraged faculty, staff, Read More...
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From Patient to PA: The Importance of Organ Donation
October 1, 2009 1:15 PM by Heather Simons
Sixteen years ago, Jim Ginter, president of the Wisconsin Academy of Physician Assistants and an ADVANCE author and peer reviewer, received a new kidney and discovered a new path in life. In an article in the Sheboygan Press , Ginter discusses the hereditary Read More...
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PA Student Develops Instrument to Estimate Calcium Intake
September 2, 2009 3:00 PM by Terri Schaefer
Morgan Henry, a PA student at the Keck School of Medicine USC Primary Care Physician Assistant Program in California, along with Hawley Almstedt, PhD, has developed a validated research questionnaire to accurately estimate calcium intake. Their research Read More...
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More Discussion on PAs and the Physician Shortage
August 25, 2009 10:43 AM by Heather Simons
And so the health care reform debate continues... A recent article at Examiner.com champions PAs and NPs as a possible solution to the physician shortage. "Primary physician shortage spurs search for alternatives," by DC public policy examiner Alan Portner, Read More...
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The PA Profession Revealed, By Chapter
August 19, 2009 12:26 PM by Heather Simons
A facebook update from Physician Assistant History Center this morning thanked California PA Beth Grivett for donating her recently published book for prospective PA students, So You Want To Be A Physician Assistant , to the PAHx. The book's foreword, Read More...
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PAs Discuss Health Care on Fox News
July 31, 2009 10:25 AM by Heather Simons
Yesterday, Fox News posted two videos in which future health care professionals from Emory University answer questions about their views on health care reform. The first video, "Doctors of Tomorrow," included three medical students, one resident and two Read More...
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Oregon PA Wins Teaching Award
July 1, 2009 2:32 PM by Terri Schaefer
Eric Schuman, MPAS, PA-C, an editorial peer reviewer and contributor here at ADVANCE , recently received the 2009 Excellence in Teaching Award from Northwest Permanente Physicians and Surgeons. As Schuman told us, “What especially pleased me was that Read More...
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PA Scholarship Update
June 15, 2009 10:41 AM by Terri Schaefer
Mary Kay Bonds, the mother of PA Julie Sutton-Osgood, who was killed by a drunk driver in July 2005, recently contacted ADVANCE with some updates about the scholarship in her daughter’s name, as well as upcoming events. To date, Bonds says 12 scholarships Read More...
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Three More Physician Assistant Programs Bring Total to 145
March 25, 2009 3:33 PM by Stephen Cornell
ARC-PA has granted accreditation to three brand new physician assistant programs . The new programs are: - Nova Southeastern University in Jacksonville, Fla. This is NSU's fourth accredited PA program and the seventh PA program in Florida. - SUNY Upstate Read More...
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Physician Assistant Blogs from Iraq
March 24, 2009 2:50 PM by Stephen Cornell
Maj. Mike Roscoe, a physician assistant in the Indiana National Guard and and assistant professor in the Butler University PA program, has been blogging about his deployment to Iraq since Aug. 31, 2008. Roscoe has two posts this month. There's a ton of Read More...
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NPR on 'Doctor Nurses'
February 24, 2009 1:01 PM by Stephen Cornell
National Public Radio did a piece on the Doctor of Nursing Practice degree on All Things Considered on Feb. 22. No one wants to badmouth Florence Nightingale, but a new degree for nurses is causing bad blood between doctors and their longtime colleagues. Read More...
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Physician Assistants and the Underserved in Texas
February 23, 2009 1:21 PM by Stephen Cornell
An article from The Herald newspaper of Brownsville, Texas, talks about the positive effects of the University of Texas-Pan American's physician assistant program on health care in an underserved region of the state. The Valley's shortage of healthcare Read More...
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New West Virginia Physician Assistant Program
February 11, 2009 4:46 PM by Stephen Cornell
West Liberty State College in West Liberty, W. Va., is advertising for a physician assistant program director. This is the first new program I've noticed in a while. Below is a list of schools developing PA programs. There are currently 142 accredited Read More...
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