St. Scholastica starting physician assistant program The launch of a physician assistant graduate program in Duluth "is going to be part of the solution" to a shortage of doctors, particularly in ...

The Physician Assistant Master of Science degree signifies that the holder is prepared for entry into the practice of medicine. It follows that the graduate must have the knowledge, skills and ...

Physician assistants (PAs) are particularly useful for doing oral exams in children, especially for underserved populations and in rural areas, according to Mark Deutchman, MD, a professor in both the ...

Nazareth University is enrolling its first cohort into its new physician assistant master's program. Physician assistants are ...

LEBANON – Dartmouth Health’s Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center (DHMC) is now the only hospital in New England, and only the third nationally, to earn dual accreditation from the American Nurses ...

In the meantime, schools continue to open new nurse practitioner and physician assistants programs to fill the growing need.

Physician assistants are healthcare professionals trained in intensive programs that mirror the medical model of physician education that must be accredited by the Accreditation Review Commission on ...

"Physician assistant students need to be prepared to prevent and treat opioid use disorder and opioid overdose," said DPH Commissioner Monica Bharel, MD, MPH.

An agreement has been reached between the University of Maryland Eastern Shore and more than 30 students forced out of the physician assistant academic program that shut down a year ago after ...