The physician assistant profession celebrates its sixtieth anniversary in 2025. Yet patients sometimes misunderstand the PA ...

Physician assistants across the U.S. saw an average salary increase of 4.3 percent to a base salary of $120,000, according to a report from the American Academy of Physician Associates that surveyed ...

Nurses concerned over patient treatment. The National Physician Assistant Research Agenda has been updated to accurately reflect the profession’s impact on health outcomes as seen by other healthcare ...

Gavel and stethoscope. medical jurisprudence. legal definition of medical malpractice. attorney. common errors doctors, nurses and hospitals make. After years of debate, the AAPA changed the PA ...

Jennifer Orozco sees physician assistants as a vital part of care teams and expects continued growth of the profession. The new president of the American Academy of PAs (AAPA) is bullish on the future ...

The College of Nursing and Health Professions has one of the best physician assistant programs in the country. Of course we think that, but so do a lot of other people. In fact, U.S. News & World ...

Several students in the Department of Clinical and Diagnostic Sciences’ PA program took that message to heart and commemorated the week by volunteering at Bessemer City Schools. Led by Gilford, the ...

After much debate and discussion, in May the American Academy of Physician Assistants (AAPA) House of Delegates passed a resolution affirming "physician associate" as the official title of the PA ...

Eugene Stead Jr., MD, founded the physician assistant profession when he established the first PA training program at Durham, N.C.-based Duke University in 1965. Dr. Stead created the program in ...

**In the Spring 2022 Physician Assistant Department Newsletter, Justin Judilla's name was misspelled. We sincerely apologize to Justin, but hope that the PA students, alumni, faculty, staff and ...