American Academy of Physician Assistants

This video provides a tutorial on how to use Learning Central -- AAPA's new professional development home for PAs. Learn how to search the robust CME Catalog containing over 400 activities, retrieve CME certificates from y...

Gear up for IMPACT 2013: PAs Take Washington as you relive the excitement of IMPACT 2012 in Toronto. There's still time to register for PAs Take Washington, held May 25 - 29 at the Washington Convention Center in D.C.! To ...

This year, there are more opportunities than ever to get to know your fellow constituent organization leaders at IMPACT 2013, AAPA's 41st Annual Physician Assistant Conference. Visit the Constituent Organizations page on w...

Students, this is your conference! PAs are the future of healthcare, and we're ready to support you with education, networking events and top healthcare speakers at IMPACT 2013, AAPA's 41st Annual Physician Assistant Confe...

This is your conference! PAs are the future of healthcare, and we're ready to support you with education, networking events and top healthcare speakers at IMPACT 2013, AAPA's 41st Annual Physician Assistant Conference in W...

Check out how excited AAPA staff is about IMPACT 2013 in Washington, D.C. Have you registered yet? Visit www.pastakewashington.org to get started today.

Exhibitors describe the benefits of exhibiting at IMPACT, AAPA's annual physician assistant conference.

The Physician Assistant Foundation's 2013 Caring for Communities (CFC) grant recipient, Bread for the City, is located in Washington, D.C., and serves uninsured, underserved and group home residents. To learn more about th...

Register now for the largest PA-focused CME event in the world! IMPACT 2013, AAPA's 41st Annual Physician Assistant Conference happens May 25 - 29, 2013 in Washington, D.C. Go to www.aapa.org/IMPACT to register today!

This video, which was shown at CORE: AAPA's Leadership Forum in September 2012, features stories from PAs who visited Capitol Hill during AAPA's Capitol Connection in March 2012. For details about CORE's Hill Day and the a...

AAPA would like to thank the dozens of PAs who stopped by the I'm a PA video booth at IMPACT 2012 in Toronto and volunteered to share their stories about what it means to them to be a PA.

This educational video includes s...

This ceremony, produced by AAPA's Veterans Caucus, honors the profession's military roots, PAs who serve in the uniformed services, veterans, and those who have given their lives while serving their country.

AAPA is proud of its military roots and of the role PAs continue to play in the uniformed services. This video, which aired during AAPA's 40th Annual PA Conference in Toronto, Ontario in May 2012, acknowledges the sacrific...

Gear up for IMPACT 2013: PAs Take Washington as you relive the excitement of IMPACT 2012 in Toronto. There's still time to register for PAs Take Washington, held May 25 - 29 at the Washington Convention Center in D.C.! To ...

AAPA President Robert Wooten (2011-2012) and CEO Jennifer Dorn traveled around the country this spring to hear PAs' questions, stories and insights about the profession. On May 4, they spoke with PAs and students at Wayne ...

Three years ago, Vicki Chan-Padgett, PA-C, of Las Vegas, Nev., stumbled upon a troubling reality within the city's healthcare sector. Thousands of women and their children who were homeless or survivors of domestic abuse c...

Ruth Ballweg, MPH, PA-C, is the 2012 recipient of AAPA's Eugene A. Stead Jr. Award of Achievement. She is being recognized by the American Academy of Physician Assistants for her commitment to advancing the PA profession b...

More than 35 years ago, a local physician and physician assistant joined forces to help care for the growing number of El Pasoans struggling with diabetes and other chronic endocrine disorders. Together, Dwight Deter, PA-C...

Since the early days of her career as a physician assistant in family practice, Cynthia Lord, MHS, PA-C, of Cheshire, Conn. has been driven by her passion for serving patients with the greatest need for care. Now, in her p...

When Jack Gardner, PA-C, of Portsmouth, N.H., left a successful business career 12 years ago to become a physician assistant, he did not anticipate the number of lives he would touch as he pursued his dream to provide medi...

Over the course of her 20-year career as a physician assistant, Air Force Lt. Col. Pamela Lucas, PA-C, has improved disaster and humanitarian response worldwide and streamlined the standards for medical care in the Air For...

AAPA President Robert Wooten and CEO Jennifer Dorn are traveling around the country this spring to hear PAs' questions, stories and insights about the profession. On March 25, they spoke with PAs at the Westin in Alexandri...

AAPA President Robert Wooten explains the benefits of AAPA membership for PAs and for the profession. For more information, visit www.aapa.org.

AAPA President Robert Wooten and CEO Jennifer Dorn are traveling around the country this spring to hear PAs' questions, stories and insights about the profession. On March 15, they spoke with PAs at the Ritz-Carlton Tyson'...

AAPA President Robert Wooten and CEO Jennifer Dorn are traveling around the country this spring to hear PAs' questions, stories and insights about the profession. Their first stop: the NYIT Auditorium on Broadway in New Yo...

AAPA's Director of Grassroots Advocacy Kristin Butterfield leads you through the easy steps of scheduling a Capitol Hill visit, including an overview of the resources available on the Academy's website. For more informatio...

A one-minute video from AAPA that describes who physician assistants are and their roles as valuable members of the medical team.

What is SAAAPA? The Student Academy of the American Academy of Physician Assistants (SAAAPA) would like to introduce a brief video that was put together by members of the SAAAPA Board of Directors to show you what the Stu...

Who are physician assistants (PAs)? What roles do they play on the medical team? This video provides an overview of this fast-growing profession and an introduction to the value provided by the only national organization r...

This patient education video was developed as part of a CME initiative entitled "State of the Art Diabetes Management: Overcoming Barriers in the Use of Early Insulin Therapy." AAPA members can earn up to two AAPA Category...

AAPA President Robert Wooten, PA-C, invites PAs to share their stories of how they are making a difference for their patients, and what the Academy can do to help, at the AAPA Listening Sessions this spring. For more infor...

AAPA President Robert Wooten, PA-C discusses the partnership between AAPA and its 125 constituent organizations (COs). Find out what kind of support the Academy gives these groups, and learn how the work that COs do affect...

PA Elizabeth Murray spoke at the PA Foundation's A PAramount Evening 2011 about how she used a PAF grant to fund health education at an Atlanta program that fights child sex trafficking. Murray, who is featured in the Janu...

AAPA President Robert Wooten, PA-C, explains the importance of advocacy and what the Academy is doing on the legislative and regulatory fronts to ensure that all PAs are able to practice to their fullest capacities.

Relive the excitement of the 2011 National Medical Challenge Bowl with this video created by Visual Post, LLC. Includes video shot by Freeman AV Solutions.

AAPA President Robert Wooten explains where you can find the Academy's new, free tools to help you celebrate National PA Week 2011, October 6-12.

Peacework Medical Projects is led by PA Pam Burwell, AAPA's 2008 Humanitarian PA of the Year. Like many NGOs, Peacework went to Haiti to help after the 2010 earthquake. Unlike many NGOS, Peacework stayed and opened a clini...

This educational video, produced by the Houston Health Museum and featured on the National Institutes of Health's LifeWorks website, features Yvonne Vigil, a PA at the VA Medical Center in Houston. LifeWorks is a site aime...

Ron L. Nelson, a past AAPA president and recognized expert in PA-related billing and reimbursement matters, died June 11 at the age of 58. In this clip, Gregor Bennett, also a past AAPA president and Nelson's close friend,...

Meeting the health care needs of our nation's veterans and their families takes a team approach. Watch this AAPA-produced Joining Forces PSA to learn more about what PAs and other providers can do to educate themselves abo...

Meeting the health care needs of our nation's veterans and their families takes a team approach. Watch this AAPA-produced Joining Forces PSA to learn more about what PAs and other providers can do to educate themselves abo...

Meeting the health care needs of our nation's veterans and their families takes a team approach. Watch this AAPA-produced Joining Forces PSA to learn more about what PAs and other providers can do to educate themselves abo...

Meeting the health care needs of our nation's veterans and their families takes a team approach. Watch this AAPA-produced Joining Forces PSA to learn more about what PAs and other providers can do to educate themselves abo...

AAPA sat down with Denni Woodmansee, PA-C, director of physician assistant services at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, to find out what PAs and other primary care providers can do to help returning veterans and th...

Every year, the largest group of medical volunteers working the Cherry Blossom Run is comprised of PAs and PA students.

A slideshow of images from AAPA's 39th Annual Physician Assistant Conference in Las Vegas: May 30 - June 4, 2011. Join us for IMPACT 2012 in Toronto, Canada from May 26 - 31.

48 Teams from PA schools across the country duked it out at the the Challenge Bowl, which was held at the Las Vegas Hilton. Watch all the excitement and hear from the winners, who were the first to bring home a Challenge B...

Winners of the 2011 AAPA PAragon Awards speak about what the recognition means to them during the Physician Assistant Foundation's A PAramount Evening awards and fundraising dinner.