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PA Leads National Stop the Bleed Day

In 2016, Major Andrew Fisher, MPAS, APA, PA-C, saw a National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine study that found that up to 20 percent of U.S. trauma deaths could be prevented. Fisher had been involved for years with a bleeding control training program and became an instructor for the American College of Surgeons’ Stop the Bleed program. Then he partnered with others to start an advocacy campaign called National Stop the Bleed Day on March 31st.

February 28, 2018

Volunteer to Lead Your Profession!

The PA profession is among the most sought-after careers for young people today, in large part because of the PA leaders who devoted themselves to the profession and to future PAs who would follow in their footsteps. They invested their ideas, energy, passion, and leadership on behalf of their colleagues and the future of PA practice. AAPA is looking for these dedicated leaders – are you one of them?

February 14, 2018

How PAs Use AAPA’s Salary Report in Contract Negotiations

Only AAPA offers the in-depth data profiling of every aspect of PA compensation on the scale and degree of detail that is found in the yearly-updated Salary Report. But, they can only do it with your data! That is why it is so important to invest the 20 minutes it will take to respond to AAPA’s 2018 Salary Survey.

February 12, 2018

Urgent Care, a Fast Growing Specialty for PAs and Physicians

Urgent care medicine is the “provision of immediate medical service offering outpatient care for the treatment of acute and chronic illness and injury”. PAs in urgent care should have a vast array of clinical skills as well as the ability to quickly identify patients who require more intensive emergency medicine services. While urgent care providers may also be the first to diagnosis chronic diseases such as diabetes or asthma, they generally refer patients to a primary care provider for the management of these conditions.

February 9, 2018

New Law Permits PAs to Provide Hospice Care to Medicare Patients

This morning, Congress passed and President Trump signed into law two improvements to Medicare that represent significant victories for PAs and the patients they serve. The first improvement will allow PAs to manage and provide hospice care to terminally-ill Medicare patients; another will allow PAs to supervise cardiac and pulmonary rehabilitation programs under the Medicare program.

February 9, 2018

PAs Help Provide Care to Las Vegas Shooting Victims

It was around 10:08 p.m. that Stephen Paddock opened fire on the more than 20,000 people at the Route 91 Harvest Music Festival from his hotel room on the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino. The shooting lasted about 10 minutes. Fifty-eight people died and more than 500 people had injuries. Here, three PAs share their stories about providing care in the hours following the tragedy.

February 7, 2018

Challenge Bowl: Who Will Win in 2018?

Each year, more than 80 PA programs from across the country compete in the AAPA National Medical Challenge Bowl. Challenge Bowl, the hallmark student event at AAPA’s Conference, a high-energy game-show-format competition in which students answer questions on a variety of clinical topics.

February 2, 2018