“I wanted to give my school the best opportunity to have a successful and quality program, and I knew this would be the place to come.” — Beth Smolko

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PAEA staff member finds visit to a PA program in the United Kingdom to be an eye-opening experience.

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Starting with Version 6, End of Rotation™ exam scores will be reported on a scale from 300 to 500. Using this standard metric will allow for easy comparisons between versions of the exam over time and forms of the exam delivered to a cohort. A number of questions have been asked that deserve some detailed, […]

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PAEA’s third annual Leadership Summit helps teach volunteers how to turn their vision into reality.

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The 2018 class of Paul Ambrose Scholars was recently announced by the Association for Prevention Teaching and Research, and six PAs are part of the latest cohort. Forty students in all were selected from 32 academic health professions institutions representing medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, physical/occupational therapy, and public health disciplines. The Paul Ambrose Scholars Program exposes health professions students […]

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In our continuing effort to ensure that our exams are as secure as possible, the PAEA Assessment Team recently rolled out enhanced exam security and proctor controls. Since then, we’ve had some questions from those who have administered exams in the new system. They range from general questions about the system to specific process questions. […]

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The documentary “Quiet Heroes,” which debuted at the Sundance Film Festival last week, chronicles the heroism of a local PA/MD team during the beginning of the AIDS epidemic. Kristen Ries, MD, an infectious-disease specialist, and Maggie Snyder, MS, PA-C, were the only medical professionals in Utah in the 1980s who were willing to treat patients […]

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Worried that you missed some of the special 50th anniversary journal articles published during 2017? Well, you can relax, because a new digital anniversary e-book has just been released by JPAE publisher Wolters Kluwer. This e-book is a compilation of the content from both JPAE and JAAPA celebrating the 50th anniversary of the PA profession. The […]

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A seasoned PA educator, Lisa Mustone Alexander probably needs no introduction to many of you. But for the rest…meet our new president.

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Along with electing the 2018 Board of Directors, programs vote to take a closer look at OTP.

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