PA: Physician Assistant Studies

Publications and news from American Academy of Physician Assistants, including JAAPA, available through your professional membership.

The Accreditation Review Commission on Education for the Physician Assistant is the accrediting agency that protects the interests of the public and physician assistant profession by defining the standards for physician assistant education and evaluating physician assistant educational programs within the territorial United States to ensure their compliance with those standards.

Purpose: To provide certification programs that reflect standards for clinical knowledge, clinical reasoning and other medical skills and professional behaviors required upon entry into practice and throughout their careers as physician assistants.

Membership directory, conference info, regional chapters, committees, grants and scholarships.

Providing leadership in medicine in North Carolina.

The North Carolina Medical Board was established April 15, 1859, by the General Assembly “in order to properly regulate the practice of medicine and surgery for the benefit and protection of the people of North Carolina.”

Education Forum, faculty resources, journals and publications.

The Society for the Preservation of Physician Assistant History, Inc. (PA History Society) is dedicated to the history and legacy of the physician assistant profession through the identification and collection of papers, manuscripts, magazine and newspaper clippings, histories, and visual artifacts, such as films, slides, videos, photographs, and digital images.

Student page, dermcast.tv, member document library, Journal of the SDPA, discussion forum.

The Student Academy of AAPA has its own board of directors and representative body, starting with students at individual PA programs. The Student Board of Directors guides Student Academy affairs for the following year.