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  • "No Such Thing as Too Many PAs"

    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.  A Bakersfield resident, Hanson explains how PAs are primed to ...
    Posted to ADVANCE Blog for PAs (Weblog) on November 24, 2009
  • Hofstra PA Students Try Matchmaking

    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, students and community members to get tested for potential bone marrow compatibility with ...
    Posted to ADVANCE Blog for PAs (Weblog) on October 19, 2009
  • News Article Praises PAs

    An article in today's Times Leader, a newspaper serving northeast Pennsylvania, focuses entirely on physician assistants. In honor of PA Week, which starts today, ''The PA is in'' tells the story of Justine Samanas, a PA at Mercy Special Care Hospital in Nanticoke: Justine Samanas is spending her workday seeing patients, listening to ...
    Posted to ADVANCE Blog for PAs (Weblog) on October 6, 2009
  • Specialty Certification: Do Not Be Afraid

    Editor's Note: Below is a blog post from Michael C. Doll, MPAS, PA-C, DFAAPA, FAPACVS, president of APACVS, on the subject of PA specialty certification. Check back each Monday for a new post, and please feel free to leave comments. If you would like to contribute a blog entry, e-mail assistant editor Heather Simons at hsimons@advanceweb.com. ...
    Posted to PA Specialty Certification (Weblog) on October 5, 2009
  • In A Time of Change, No Need for Ambiguity

    Editor's Note: Below is the first blog post from a PA on the topic of specialty certification. This one comes from Rick Rohrs, PA-C, DFAAPA, past president of the AAPA and past president and past chairman of the NCCPA. Check back each Monday for a new post, and please feel free to leave comments. If you would like to contribute a blog entry, ...
    Posted to PA Specialty Certification (Weblog) on September 28, 2009
  • Cardiovascular Health Webcast to Feature PA Input

    Greg P. Thomas, PA, MPH, AAPA senior vice president for education, membership and resource development, will take part in “Time to Talk CARDIO: Creating A Real Dialogue In the Office,” a Webcast that takes place tomorrow morning at 8 a.m. EST. He will discuss implementation of the program with former surgeon general Richard H. Carmona, MD, MPH, ...
    Posted to ADVANCE Blog for PAs (Weblog) on September 21, 2009
  • New Health Care Reform Bill Recognizes PAs

    In a move that gets the ball rolling for health care reform, Montana Sen. Max Baucus has released America’s Healthy Future Act of 2009. While the bill is not yet complete, it contains several provisions in favor of physician assistants: The bill treats physicians, PAs, and NPs very similarly in the new patient models of care, ...
    Posted to ADVANCE Blog for PAs (Weblog) on September 18, 2009
  • AAPA President Writes to USA Today

    In response to an article in USA Today, ''Doctor shortage looms as primary care loses its pull,'' AAPA president Stephen Hanson wrote a letter to the editor explaining what every PA knows and most of the public--and Congress--have yet to understand: PAs can and should be able to fill the gaps in primary care. That letter appeared on the USA ...
    Posted to ADVANCE Blog for PAs (Weblog) on August 21, 2009
  • Interview with AAPA's President Elect Gets Big Response

    An interview with Patrick Killeen, president elect of AAPA, has drawn nearly 100 comments and counting on the Daily Kos Web site. Killeen was interviewed by his supervising physician on topics ranging from the AAPA's position on health care reform to the physician-PA partnership from the latter's perspective and what the public needs to ...
    Posted to ADVANCE Blog for PAs (Weblog) on July 27, 2009
  • AAPA Advertisement Addresses Congress

    On Friday, July 17 and Monday, July 20, the AAPA placed this ad in two Capitol Hill publications. The ad urges members of Congress to ''make it as easy to care for someone dying as it is to care for someone living.''  From the AAPA e-newsletter: CQ Today (Congressional Quarterly) is a daily publication routinely read by legislators ...
    Posted to ADVANCE Blog for PAs (Weblog) on July 21, 2009
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