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In case anyone was wondering where we were for the last two days, the forum was down due to widespread server side issues. This outage was not specific to the forum. Thousands of websites were affected. Here is the explanation from Westhost: Anyone following us on Twitter was kept...

Brenau College in Gainesville, GA is opening a PA school in coordination with Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine. Not sure of the details.. was in the paper this week. I think you go to Philadelphia for 14 months then come and do your clinicals in Gainesville.. not sure what the...

What are your thoughts on this? http://www.nccpa.net/NewsArticles/NewsArticlesMOC_clip_image002_0000.gif Read article here: http://www.nccpa.net/NewsArticles/NewsArticlesMOC.aspx

I am at Arcadia University and am very interested in doing some (or one) of my clinical electives in international settings. Arcadia has some great connections when it comes to international study programs. I was wondering if anyone out there knows other options for international clinical...

Ok, ok. I'm not only the messenger, but also the culprit! I apologize for the "ugly" forum look and...uh, hmm....uh, the lost of posts over the last 24 hours! (Michael ducks!) I'm finding it hard to find the time to keep the site updated and respond to individual emails. (There are 28,000+...

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Global Health for Medical Professionals: Tropical Medicine, Infectious Disease, and Wilderness/Emergency Medicine PA Conference in NM in October 18 & 19. It sounds like a great conference. I hope to see you there. They now have 16 Cat I hours approved for the meeting. Mike

The new Physician Assistant program offers students a new choice in a professional degree from PCO. The program received accreditation from ARC-PA in March and the College will welcome its first Physician Assistant class in August, 2007. As of April 16, 2007, applications to the ARC-PA...

Just wanted to say Happy PA week to all the wonderful people who make up this great profession and have educated the public about us. I am still excited aand proud about being a PA even after 16 years! Take care of yourselves and your patients!

Can anyone out there give me ideas on where to look for per diem PA work in the Los Angeles area ? I'd love something in peds ER or urgent care, but am willing to try almost anything. I graduated last year from a great program back east, moved to San Francisco, and let me tell you, there are NO...

http://www.southuniversity.edu/design/img/logo.png South University – Tampa Physician Assistant Program Program Description In addition to our PA Program in Savannah, GA, South University has now established a second program, here in Tampa. We are now accepting applications for our...

There has been an increasing trend of PA school applicants coming to this forum seeking specifics about interviews - essay topics, what questions are asked in the interview, etc. What is worse than this trend is that some people are actually answering with specifics. We feel that applicants...

Hello everyone, I'm sure most of you looking for jobs in the NYC area know about this already. Just thought I'd post it on here. Today is the NYTimes Nursing and Allied Health Careers Fair at the Grand Hyatt Hotel from 10 am to 5 pm. All the regional heavyweights will be there. Montefiore is...

I would like to put in a shameless plug for my specialty organization, the society of emergency medicine pa's( sempa). they represent all pa's in emergency medicne/urgent care/er fast track positions on a state and national level and act as the pa body which interacts with acep(american college of...

The Department of Emergency Medicine at West Virginia University (WVU) School of Medicine is dedicated to furthering mid-level provider training and education. With the ever-growing need to expand the workforce of Emergency Medicine practitioners, we are now proud to offer our new Emergency...

From a friend: It is my very sad task to inform many of you in the PA world that Steve Cornell died this morning. As some of us may have known, Steve fought the demons of bipolar for many years, and this morning, he chose to finish his personal agony on earth, at his home. It is my...

Hi All: Information for the 2nd Annual PA Conference in New York City at Mount Sinai School of Medicine can be found here http://hemt.org (The deadline has been extended)

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Global Health for Medical Professionals: Tropical Medicine, Infectious Disease, and Wilderness/Emergency Medicine If you have an interest in working over seas, this sounds like a great conference. We are applying for 16 hours of cag. 1 CME. If you come, I'll buy you a coffee.:)

We get a large number of pre-PAs requesting that someone "Rate my chances (RMC)" or "Read my personal statement (PS)." I joined this forum as a pre-PA, so I sympathize with their anxieties and their desire to glean support and wisdom from this membership. As a moderator, I want this forum to be the...