Although physician assistant postgraduate residency programs have been around for 35 years,it’s only in the past decade that they’ve really started to catch on. In 1998 there were 17 programs; today ...

Sonographer performing ultrasound on girls leg. Is it realistic to add point-of-care ultrasound training to the curriculum of entry-level PA programs or should this be taught in a CME, post-graduate, ...

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 ...

Dec. 15—Idaho State University is partnering with Lewis-Clark State College to place a new physician assistant training cohort to northern Idaho, the schools announced Friday. ISU runs the state's ...

A.T. Still University’s Ted Wendel, interim dean for the Central Coast Physician Assistant program, talks to the first cohort of students at the new Santa Maria program. (Janene Scully / Noozhawk ...

A physician assistant (PA) is a health care professional who works with doctors and gives medical treatment. You can find physician assistants in virtually all primary care and specialty medical ...

Physician assistant programs fall short of engaging Black students, according to a new study from researchers at the Dallas-based University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center and Minneapolis-based ...