Events
AAPA draws together the best and brightest minds to bring you the events you need to move your career and knowledge forward. From clinical research to leadership mentoring, find the AAPA event that suits your needs.
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AAPA 2025
- May 16 – 20, 2025
Experience the largest national PA and PA student conference in Denver, Colorado. Take your career to the next level with CME and networking events. Hit up the Expo or PA Night Out with your colleagues. And bring your practice to new heights in the Mile High City!
Future AAPA Conferences
Reserve these dates and experience the world’s largest PA conference for yourself. The Conference destination is announced at the previous year’s conference during a Main Stage event.
- AAPA 2026 | May 15 – 19, 2026
- AAPA 2027 | May 21 – 25, 2027
2025 Executive Leadership Conference
- March 3 – 5, 2025
Refine your healthcare leadership competencies, explore care model design, enhance your communication skills, improve PA and NP revenue generation, and more. On the last day, choose a leadership track for targeted learning that will set you up for success.
2025 We Are Family (Medicine)
- January 11 – 13, 2025
This AAPA conference for PAs and NPs of all experience levels includes essential updates and hands-on skills practice in family medicine.
Annual Membership Meeting: Virtual
- December 11, 2024, 8 – 9 PM EST
Register now for the 2024 Annual Membership Meeting! Open to all AAPA members, this virtual meeting is your opportunity to hear important updates from AAPA leadership. Following the reports, members can participate in a Q&A.
2024 Adult Hospital Medicine Boot Camp
- September 18 – 22, 2024
Registration is now open for Boot Camp, held this year in Phoenix, Arizona! Brush up on commonly encountered diagnoses and diseases of adult hospitalized patients at this conference brought to you by AAPA and the Society of Hospital Medicine. Learn current, evidence-based topics and network with like-minded practitioners. It’s the perfect course for PAs and NPs new to adult hospital medicine!
AAPA 2024
- May 18 – 22, 2024
Experience the world’s largest PA conference in Houston, Texas. Cutting-edge CME, meaningful connections, and enriching events.
Clinical Conversations Webinar Series
- Available Webinars: 1
Tune into these timely conversations to discuss challenges and opportunities, clinical breakthroughs, healthcare advancements, public policy and programs, and PAs in innovative roles. These webinars are not CME-eligible.
PA Like a Pro Webinar Series
- Available Webinars: 31
Short, impactful digital learning opportunities geared towards PA students and early career PAs. Don’t miss important topics like financial planning and budgeting, job search strategies, and surviving rotations.
Pre-PA Webinars
- Available Webinars: 14
PA experts walk you through how to ace your PA school interviews, perfect your application, rock your personal statement, and make yourself a competitive applicant!
Research Connections
- Available Webinars: 3
Join us for engaging free networking sessions focused on research! Connect with fellow PAs and PA students as you discuss how to create strong, interdisciplinary research teams.
What PAs Need to Know About Recent Federal Actions and Policy Changes
Recent executive orders and policy changes have the potential to change the healthcare landscape and have a direct impact on patient care. Hear from AAPA leaders as they break down the latest federal actions and discuss what they mean for PAs.
Career Central Webinars
- Available Webinars: 4
Designed for PAs in all career stages, these previously recorded Career Central webinars help answer compelling questions affecting your daily work life and career. Whether you’re considering taking on a side gig or need help vetting job offers, these PA-led webinars are here to help!
Innovation Pathfinders Summit (Boston)
- June 2, 2023
In the Boston area? Join us for our first ever PA & NP Summit. This free, half-day CME event will feature speakers who push the envelope in healthcare innovation, a panel of PAs and NPs, and in-person breakout and networking sessions. Champion and explore trailblazing career paths with your colleagues!
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion CME Webinar Series
- CME Eligible
- Available Webinars: 7
Promoting equity and justice in healthcare exemplifies the values of the PA profession and is the responsibility of each and every PA with the support and leadership of AAPA.
The Early Career PA’s Ultimate Guide to Conference
- May 6, 2025, 7-8 p.m. ET
If you’re an early career PA who is attending AAPA 2025 in Denver, you won’t want to miss this webinar designed to help you make the most of your conference experience. Hear from a primary care PA about his experience plus get insider tips from AAPA staff about what you can expect.
Your AAPA 2025 Game Plan: A Student & Pre-PA Guide
- May 6, 2025, 8:30 p.m. ET
If you’re a PA student or pre-PA attending AAPA 2025 in Denver — or thinking of attending — join Student Academy leaders and AAPA staff for the inside scoop. This webinar will help you make the most out of your time in Denver.
The First 100 Days of the Trump Administration – What It Means for PAs
- May 7, 2025, 8 p.m. ET
Tune into a webinar featuring representatives from AAPA’s leadership and advocacy teams as they answer pressing questions and discuss key takeaways from the first 100 days of the new administration. This webinar is open exclusively to members.
2025 Musculoskeletal Galaxy
- July 27 – 30, 2025
Registration is now open! Join us in Las Vegas for a well-rounded foundation on essential orthopaedic topics. This event is ideal for PAs and NPs new to orthopaedics or providers who see musculoskeletal conditions in family practice, emergency medicine, or urgent care.
2025 Leadership and Advocacy Summit
- September 18 – 20, 2025
Join your fellow PAs and PA students in the nation’s capital to learn about key developments facing the profession, association management, leadership best practices, and advocacy skill-building. You’ll even have the opportunity to meet with bipartisan Congressional legislators in Washington, D.C.
PA Institute 2025
- December 11 – 13, 2025
Join us in Orlando, Fla., for this new 3-day event designed for PAs who have a focus in psychiatry or psych-minded PAs. Enhance your knowledge in mental health, learn indispensable skills in topics from psychopharmacology to psychotherapy, and walk away empowered with a comprehensive understanding of psychiatric care.
CME On Demand
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