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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

When Dustin Hayes was a biology major at the University of South Carolina, he thought about going to medical school. He decided to become a physician assistant instead. He'll still take care of ...

Alberta's first training program for physician assistants, at the University of Calgary, is gearing up for an August launch, sparking hopes it could provide some relief to the province's health-care ...