Joelseff Posted April 25, 2012 Share Posted April 25, 2012 This is all great news. Waiting on bated breath. Loving APAPs response and hopefully the HOD/BOD or whoever takes notice. Looking forward to news out of Toronto. Sent from my myTouch_4G_Slide using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jsfelder0417 Posted April 26, 2012 Share Posted April 26, 2012 Thanks for the update EMED, great news and hopefully the trend will continue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
late_bloomer Posted May 1, 2012 Share Posted May 1, 2012 Signed and passed to my classmates.. Hope it helps.. Thanks for all the hard work! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderator EMEDPA Posted May 3, 2012 Moderator Share Posted May 3, 2012 This all paid off. aapa census results are in. of those expressing a preference a majority(45%) are in favor of name change! In brief, among the nearly 15,000 PAs who answered these questions, 45.5 percent were in favor of a title change, 33.6 percent were against and 20.9 percent indicated they were either not sure, interested or preferred not to answer the question. Less than two percent of PAs recommended a professional title other than physician associate, which included physician extender, medical practitioner and associate physician. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
burnpac Posted May 3, 2012 Share Posted May 3, 2012 This all paid off. aapa census results are in. of those expressing a preference a majority(45%) are in favor of name change!In brief, among the nearly 15,000 PAs who answered these questions, 45.5 percent were in favor of a title change, 33.6 percent were against and 20.9 percent indicated they were either not sure, interested or preferred not to answer the question. Less than two percent of PAs recommended a professional title other than physician associate, which included physician extender, medical practitioner and associate physician. And would you agree that this constitutes a substantial response from the AAPA on the issue of the title change? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderator EMEDPA Posted May 3, 2012 Moderator Share Posted May 3, 2012 And would you agree that this constitutes a substantial response from the AAPA on the issue of the title change? indeed. now we need to see what the HOD decides and what the follow through is....if this is back burnered to be "studied" again many folks will be upset... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
surgblumm Posted July 10, 2012 Share Posted July 10, 2012 I know that I am following an old thread but the title change committee has sent a letter today to the president of the AAPA as this is unfinished business and Paul Lombardo, at the HOD, stated that this was not the place for discussion as this is a business matter. I don't agree with Paul on many things but I do on this and we are expecting the AAPA BOD to respond to our letter which is signed by the first PA, Generals, Admirals, State and National leaders and a group of forty year olds and youner who we will help to mentor ar they become the new leaders of the profession. Yes, it's time to change and this change can be painless or painful and the decision is with the BOD not with us. The "us " i am referring to are the 60%of the profession that have not joined the AAPA, the 6,5000 PAs who were never responded to and the approximately 10,000 PAs who are no longer satisfied with business as usual. Hopefully the letter will be recieved in the spirit it is intended but we will promise you that this issue did not die in Canada. Bob Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andersenpa Posted July 11, 2012 Share Posted July 11, 2012 As long as this cause is advanced by PAs that beleive in it, it will need to be addressed by the AAPA Our perseverance is the key to our success Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
primadonna22274 Posted July 11, 2012 Share Posted July 11, 2012 Thanks Bob and the rest of you who have worked tirelessly to keep pushing this issue. Hopefully it is not an entirely thankless task. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
surgblumm Posted July 11, 2012 Share Posted July 11, 2012 Welll said Matt as you and PAs in your age group are the hope of today and tomorrow. Some of us original signers may not be around in five to ten years but it is essential that thirty and forty year old PAs begin to take the leadership roles; not for glory and recognition but to keep this profession on target and alive for the future. I spoke to a PA from Texas tonight who is my age and we discussed that the AANP made the statement that by 2025 they will double their numbers. I believe that they meean it and I love NPs but I still don't want us to be called P/NP Assistants. Stand strong together today to preserve tomorrow. bob:=D: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eddoc Posted August 5, 2013 Share Posted August 5, 2013 As an interesting side note, our much younger colleagues in the United Kingdom officially changed the name of the profession to "physician associate" recently after finding that the Physician assistant moniker was not reflective of the practice parameters and too restrictive. Out of the mouths of babes! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderator ventana Posted August 5, 2013 Moderator Share Posted August 5, 2013 keep pushing.... it is worth it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderator EMEDPA Posted August 5, 2013 Moderator Share Posted August 5, 2013 yup, and in south africa PAs are called clinical associates... http://www.iapae.org/south_africa Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joane Bergen Posted September 11, 2013 Share Posted September 11, 2013 Where and how do we sign ? Joanne Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderator EMEDPA Posted September 11, 2013 Moderator Share Posted September 11, 2013 we got 6500 signatures and closed the petition. we turned it in to aapa who promptly ignored it. if interested in seeing this go farther join PAFT http://www.pasfortomorrow.org Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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