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 ...

Editor's Note: Below is a blog post from Randy Danielson, PhD, PA-C, DFAAPA, on the subject of PA specialty certification, which was originally published in Clinician Reviews. An excerpt is included here; you can read the complete article by clicking on the link at the end. Check back each Monday for a new post, and please feel free to leave ...

Editor's Note: Below is a blog post from Miquel Valdez, PA-C, 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. Thanks. I've been putting off making any ...

A recent article in The New York Times discusses how ''Primary Care's Image Problem'' is leading the vast majority of med students into specialties over primary care and how the patient-centered medical home model could alter the course of this alarming trend.   A decreasing number of primary care physicians has ...

Editor's Note: Below is a blog post from Bob Blumm, MA, PA-C, DFAAPA, 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. Thanks.  PA specialty certification ...

Editor's Note: Below is a blog post from Glen E. Combs, MA, PA-C, 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. Thanks. When NCCPA's specialty ...

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. ...

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, ...

The more and more we talk in class about the different potential fields to go into after we graduate, the more I am absolutely lost when it comes to what area I want to focus on. I am not feeling pulled in one specific direction but instead torn between fields like dermatology, oncology, orthopedics, and family medicine, which are all so ...

The Society of Dermatology Physician Assistants announced the results of its 2009 elections on Facebook. The winners are: Abby Jacobson (president-elect) CaSondra Soto (vice president) Mark Hyde (director at large) John Notabartolo (director at large) SDPA also approved Casey Croes as director at large for a one-year term. Link