Here is a list of other sites by PAs. PA Programs are not listed here, as the best source for current information on individual programs and contacts is at the Association of PA Programs. Recruiting firms are also excluded, unless it is of special interest, government, or nonprofit. It would be very helpful to let us know if you have found other sites created by or for designed for PAs.
Physician Assistant State Academy Web Sites
New: Clinician Stuff " . . .creative merchandise to increase recognition of . . . physican assistants and nurse practitioners . . .It is our hope that Clinician Stuff will fill a void that presently exists by helping to increase the visability of our professions." 8/05, jk
American Association of Surgical Physicain Assistants Includes a listing of PostGraduate Surgical Residency Programs for PAs, information on their PA Student Scholarships, and a considerable amount of text, by surgical specialty, about What does a Surgical PA Do?
The American College of Clinicians Their Mission Statement: "The American College of Clinicians is an organization of nurse practitioners and physician assistants committed to working together to provide the highest level of care to our patients. We promote access to innovative, affordable continuing education, and the integration of PAs and NPs as full members of the health care team. We seek full recognition as health care providers with fair reimbursement for our services in all settings. By working together, we are committed to fostering a continuing positive dialogue among ourselves and other health care professionals who desire to join this dialogue." Free CME, Conferences notices, PA/PA Groups. jk, 4/04
American Medical Association With in the sites' Medical Educational Resources, Allied Health Section. Taken from their book: Health Professions Career and Education Directory. Provides a short, concise summary of the profession that can be easily emailed to others.
American Society of Endocrine Physician Assistants "Our purpose is to create a unified educational subspecialty group within the American Academy of Physician Assistants (AAPA)."
The Association of Family Practice Physician Assistants Membership, CME,and Cat I CME tapes of their annual conference are available.
Association
of Neurosurgical Physician Assistants
They are recognized by the American Academy of Physician Assistants
(AAPA), as an official subspecialty organization, are represented in
the Surgical Congress of AAPA, and are recognized by the American Association
of Neurological Surgeons (AANS), and the Congress of Neurological Surgeons
(CNS).
Association of Physician Assistants in Cardiovascular Surgery
The Association of Physician Assistant Programs (APAP), ". . .established in 1972, is the national organization representing physician assistant educational programs in the United States." Provides information about all of the accredited PA programs, and maintains a central application service. Includes:
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the policy paper: "Guidelines of Courtesy Regarding Collaboration on the Use of Clinical Training Sites."
- Comprehensive Review for the Certification and Recertification Examinations for Physician Assistants
- On-line Physician Assistant Programs Directory, and
- PA GRADRAT, a self-assessment exam for graduate PAs, specifically designed for takers of the Physician Assistant National Recertifying Examination (PANRE).
Association of Postgraduate Physician Assistant Programs. Extensive listing of programs, but it is not clear if the site only lists their members or all programs.
CERMUSA Center of Excellence for Remote and Medically Under Served Areas. "Combining computer and communications technologies to improve access to health care and education in rural and isolated areas..." Effort of Saint Francis University. Prototype developers included two PAs: William Duryea and Albert Simon. (The Center was included in this list of PA web sites because The Open Directory Project catalogs the Centers' Web Page as ". . . the brainchild of the PA program at St. Francis College."
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Employment Page.
The Commission on Accreditation of Allied Health Education Programs (CAAHEP) A nonprofit agency that accredits programs representing 18 allied health professions recognizing over 1900 allied health education programs in more than 1300 institutions (including PAs).
Dermatology Job Site No fees, maintained by on of the founders of the Society of Dermatolgy PAs.
Differential Diagnosis Mnemonics Pocket Book and Palm Pilot Note File Written by Allan Platt PA-C, $6 per book, $7 per Palm program.
Employment for PAs Page from Open Directory Project, lists AAPA pages for PAs and employers, some recruiting firms, and some employment web sites.
Federation
Credentials Verification Service
Fee based primary source verification of education, postgraduate training,
licensure examination history, board action history and identity. Allows
an individual to establish a confidential, lifetime professional portfolio
that can be forwarded at the individual's request to any interested party,
including, but not limited to: state medical boards, hospitals, managed
care plans and professional societies. The Federation of State Medical
Boards is a nonprofit organization.
First Nations Council of Physician Assistants American Indian Caucus of the AAPA.
HealthStream CME Search Listing of CME Conferences that have indicated their content is also directed toward PA. On December 17, 2002, the day of this review, 15 conferences were listed, but none were by AAPA or their state chapters. There were not listings for web CME-see our section for free and fee based Web CME offerings.
History of PAs and NPs: from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
The Internet Journal of Academic Physician Assistants This is a peer reviewed journal, with articles archived by Internet Scientific Publications LLC and recognized by The Library of Congress Catalog of Publications. Includes a page linking to 53 other internet medical journals, from anesthesiology to Space Medicine.
Kens' PA Links. Ken is Ken Baker, who was a PA student in 1999, and has not updated his site since. But don't let that stop you from visiting this site. The depth and breadth of the links is amazing:
- Clinical Skills: Auscultation, Heart and Lung sounds, Stethoscope and Otoscope use, and a Medical Student section,
- Clinical Cases: Interactive Patient, Cyberounds, Triage, Trauma, Discharge Planning, Ped patients, and more,
- Clinical Resources: H&Ps, Primary Care Teaching modules and Pearls, ACLS links,
- Medical Resources: Too many to list
- What's a PA
- Organizations,
- Financial Aid, Book Dealers and some interesting search engines.
Larry Wright, PAC Only four pages, with a brief article entitled "What is a Physician Assistant (PA)", a short bio, and links to Panama City, Florida.
Lewboski's Home Page This is Kevin Lewis, PA-C's web site. Unusually navigation scheme, but many medical, fire, and Occupational Medicine links. Features a series of photos showing an open heart surgery case.
Medical-PA.com Only offers free email, a direct link to physicianassociate.com (see below), and a search engine for the web.
Nellmark Novelties The home page offers T-shirts, poloshirts, sweatshirts, caps, tie tacs and pendants with PA imprints. There are also over 280 links to other medical web sites, organized by clinical areas: geriatrics, pediatrics, and so on.
News-line for Physician Assistants Health news, articles, career opportunities, conferences, and an email newsletter.
Occupational Outlook Handbook From the Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor. Individual Sections: Nature of the Work | Working Conditions | Employment | Training, Other Qualifications, and Advancement | Job Outlook | Earnings | Related Occupations | Sources of Additional Information
PA Humor.com 8 pictures/cartoons.
PA Linx.com "Physician Assistants News and Newsletters from top medical Journals" The editor of this site is not identified, nor is the criteria used to select the articles listed. Seems to be an automatic retrieval of articles from MDLinx, which offers email newsletters from 28 medical subspecialties with registration.
PA-student.com A collection of links of interest to graduate and student PAs. Features a FAQ page for pre-PAs, and a large page of medical links.
PAboards.com Opened August, 2004, their promotional information states: "Paboards.com is a website that is very helpful and informative in your process in studying for the PANCE/PANRE. There are over 1100 board related questions with many x-rays and EKGs with simple and concise answers and another feature is 50 board related handouts available in PDF format with the ability to download them to print for your personal use. A radiology workshop of CXRs, CTs, abdominal series, and broken bones pertaining to the boards which students are held accountable for is also available in this website."
The Physician Assistant as an Expert Witness A web article written by a PA. The last date of the references is 1997, but the information still seems relevent.
Physician Assistants for Cross-Cultural Involvement (PAXI) A Special Interest membership group within the AAPA, they maintain a database of PAs that are interested in overseas employment opportunites, have a quarterly newsletter, and liason with Doctors Without Borders. (If this subject is of interest to you, see also International Healthcare Opportunites Clearinghouse and HCCA International.)
Physician
Assistant AIDS Network " . . .a not-for-profit organization
formed to promote networking, continuing medical education, and symposia
for PAs working in HIV/AIDS care." Features an Interactive Discussion
Area, where users can post topics for discussion or discuss difficult
case presentations. There is also a live chat feature for planned meetings.
Offers information for PAs to become a credentialed HIV Specialist.
Physician Assistant/Associates A PA web site by an admirer of PAs. The site includes some articles, testimonials, a little listing of CME courses, and links to PA schools. Features an article entitled "Physician Assistants in the United States", which provides an overview of the profession today, written by some very heavy hitters: David Mittman, James Cawley, and William Fenn.
Physician Assistant Page A site by someone hoping to become a PA. Last updated, 1998. Not recommended.
Physician Assistant History Office " . . . a collaborative effort between the Duke University Medical Center, the American Academy of Physician Assistants (AAPA), the Association of Physician Assistant Programs (APAP), the National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants (NCCPA) and the Society for the Preservation of Physician Assistant History (SPPAHx) incorporated in January 2002 to be the preeminent leader in fostering the preservation, study and presentation of PA history."
The Physician Assistant Newsletter Job Listings, Articles, PA Program Database, Interview Q & A (for PA school admissions).
Physician Assistant.Org Features about 30 links about PAs and medicine, and information from AAPA and the Department of Labor on PAs.
The Physician Assistant Web Site A very small site, with mostly personal information of the PA site owner.
Physician Assistants in Orthopedic Surgery
Physician Associate.com Also named the PA Forum. Offers a PA Gift Shop, polls, and discussion forums that can be read by guests, and posted to only by registered members. Can't contact the owner of the site, as the link "Contact Us" doesn't work.
Post Graduate PA Programs This page is part of the Open Directory Project, which is an ongoing attempt to catorigize the web. This page lists 8 programs, but does not seem to be up-to-date, as some current programs are not listed. See also the Association of Postgraduate Physician Assistant Programs.
The Society of Air Force Physician Assistants
Society of Army Physician Assistant's
Society
of Dermatology Physician Assistants
Most sections
of this site are members only, but has an open
page of links to four articles from Dermatolgy World, Skin and Allergy
News, and AMEDNEWS on PA utilization.
Society
of Emergency Medicine Physician Assistants
"The Society of Emergency Medicine Physician Assistants (SEMPA)
is the national organization representative of the 5,000 physician assistants
(PA) currently practicing emergency medicine. We work very closely with
both the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) and the American
Academy of Physician Assistants (AAPA) on issues . . . " The
site is well done, with a good EM booklist, and an intriguing Emergency
Medicine Self Assessment Examination, based on a well known EM text. The
test has 12 sections, with a requirement for a passing score to move on
to the next section. Also links to PA EM utilization from AAPA
and American
College of of Emergency Physicians (ACEP).
Society
of PA's in Trauma and Critical Care Medicine Mission
Statement:
1. Promote
the use of Physician Assistant’s as part of the multidisciplinary
approach to care of the critically ill and injured. 2. Promote the education
of Physician Assistant’s and Physician Assistant students in all
aspects of caring for the critically ill and injured. 3. Create a network
where Physician Assistants and students interested in the care of the
critically ill and injured can learn more about the role of the Physician
Assistant in this field, facilitate communication, share ideas, discuss
current trends and issues, and exchange information. 4. Serve as an adjunct
to the Society of Critical Care Medicine Physician Assistant Section and
offer support and guidance. posted 8/04, jk
Student Doctor Network. PAs are a subject in this large Forum section. At the time of this review, there were 19 threads, with hundreds of postings.
United Kingdom Association of Physician Assistants Nice site, very informative, technically well done. 11/06, jk
VACareers.com Opportunities in the Veterans Administration for PAs.
Veteran Affairs Physician Assistant Association
