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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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Physician Assistant Doctorate Summit
March 23, 2009 2:49 PM by Stephen Cornell
The long-awaited PAEA-AAPA physician assistant doctorate degree summit meeting finally begins March 25 in Atlanta. One interesting note, PAEA's online message board about doctorate degrees has a lot of talk about a PA-to-physician bridge program. It'll 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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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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Less Silence on Physician Assistant Doctorates Already
December 12, 2008 8:28 AM by Stephen Cornell
On the American Academy of Physician Assistants Web site today is a two-page AAPA News article about the U.S. Army's PA clinical doctorate program by Doug Scott. In October 2007, Major Leonard Gruppo announced to the five PAs attending the U.S. Army Emergency Read More...
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PA Clinical Doctorate Program Graduation
July 23, 2008 5:14 PM by Stephen Cornell
I did not see this when it was originally published, but in its Dec. 20, 2007, issue the Fort Sam Houston News Leader published a good article about the graduation of the first class from the U.S. Army's clinical doctorate program for PAs in emergency Read More...
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PA Clinical Doctorate Degrees and the Army
January 18, 2008 4:39 PM by Stephen Cornell
After reading the Army Times article cited in the previous blog post, I wanted to make what I think is an important point that has been overshadowed a bit by the controversy about the U.S. Army’s PA clinical doctorate program. The U.S. Army and Baylor Read More...
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