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Physician Assistant Clinical Doctorate Degree Summit Participants
March 25, 2009 1:44 PM by Stephen Cornell
The three-day physician assistant clinical doctorate degree summit began today in Atlanta. PAEA posted a list of the summit's 46 participants on its Web site. Link 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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Physician Assistant Program No. 143 Receives Accreditation
March 17, 2009 11:54 AM by Stephen Cornell
ARC-PA granted provisional accreditation this month to the physician assistant program at Lincoln Memorial University-DeBusk College of Osteopathic Medicine in Harrowgate, Tenn. The new program is the 143rd accredited PA program in the United States and 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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Physician Assistant Clinical Doctorate Update
February 11, 2009 1:50 PM by Stephen Cornell
The American Academy of Physician Assistants posted on its Web site an update about its investigation of a possible physician assistant clinical doctorate degree . Is the clinical doctorate appropriate to the profession as an entry-level degree, as a Read More...
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Physician Assistants Should Not Be A 'Silent Partner'
February 10, 2009 5:03 PM by Stephen Cornell
Physician Assistant Education Association executive director Timi Agar Barwick and associate executive director Steven Lane published an article in the Jan. 2009 issue of the Association of America Medical College's AAMC Reporter, titled, "PAs Not a Silent Read More...
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Some Support for a Physician Assistant-to-Physician Bridge Program
February 4, 2009 5:14 PM by Stephen Cornell
There's some support for a physician assistant-to-physician bridge program on the Physician Assistant Educaiton Association's Web site. The ongoing discussion is in the comments section below PAEA's resources about PA doctorate degrees. From PA educator Read More...
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Tennessee Physician Assistants Blogged
January 28, 2009 4:51 PM by Stephen Cornell
Knoxville (Tenn.) News Sentinel reporter Kristi Nelson blogged about physician assistants twice this week on her blog, Health Hits . She does a nice job describing the profession in What's a PA, anyway? It's been my experience that a lot of people confuse Read More...
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Physician Assistants on the Battlefield
January 26, 2009 10:55 AM by Stephen Cornell
ReachMD host and physician assistant Lisa D'Andrea Lanell interviewed U.S. Army PA James Jones. Captain James Jones, program manager of the Army's Interservice Physician Assistant Program, discusses with host Lisa D'Andrea Lenell the role of the physician Read More...
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New Society of Dermatology Physician Assistants Podcasts
January 23, 2009 2:45 PM by Stephen Cornell
The Society of Dermatology Physician Assistants has two new audio podcasts available on its Dermcast.tv Web site. On one, SDPA immediate past president Robert Higham interviews New Jersey derm PA Casey Croes about the society's Distance Learning Initiative Read More...
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Florida Physician Assistant Cares for the Uninsured
January 22, 2009 2:40 PM by Stephen Cornell
Florida physician assistant Joanie Kemsley is the primary health care provider at the St. Vincent de Paul Community Health Care free clinic for the uninsured in Port Charlotte, Fla. Barry University's MEDexpress publication has an excellent profile of Read More...
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Movement on Physician Assistant Doctorate Issue
January 8, 2009 11:27 AM by Stephen Cornell
The PAEA-AAPA summit to consider an entry-level doctorate degree for the profession is scheduled for March 25-27. The organizations have created a sponsor group "to oversee the planning, research, and educational process that will support the final recommendation." Read More...
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12 Physician Assistant Moments for 2008
December 31, 2008 10:07 AM by Stephen Cornell
This is the 448th and final post to the ADVANCE Blog for PAs in 2008. Check back on Jan. 2 for the first blog post of 2009. Until then, here's a quick look back at some of the notable PA stories of the last year. *** January Annals of Family Medicine Read More...
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