Events
AAPA draws together the best and brightest minds to bring you the in-person and virtual events you need to move your career and knowledge forward. From clinical research to leadership mentoring, find the AAPA event that suits your needs.
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AAPA 2024
- May 18 – 22, 2024
Experience the world’s largest PA conference in Houston, Texas. Cutting-edge CME, meaningful connections, and enriching events. Registration opens late October 2023.
2023 We Are Family (Medicine)
- February 3 – 7, 2023
For PAs and NPs of all experience levels, this AAPA conference includes essential updates and hands-on skills practice in family medicine.
Annual Membership Meeting: Virtual
- December 14, 2022, 8:00 – 9:00 PM EST
Register now for the 2022 Annual Membership Meeting! Open to all AAPA members, this virtual meeting is your opportunity to hear important updates from AAPA leadership. Following the reports, members can participate in a Q&A with AAPA leadership.
2023 Executive Leadership Conference
- March 6 – 8, 2023
Registration is now open! Refine your healthcare leadership competencies, learn to lead through crisis, enhance your leadership skills, improve PA and NP revenue generation, and more. On the last day, choose a leadership track – Executive Leader or Emerging Leader – for targeted learning that will set you up for success.
Innovation Pathfinders Summit (Boston)
- June 2, 2023
In the Boston area? Join us for our first ever PA & NP Summit. This free, half-day CME event will feature speakers who push the envelope in healthcare innovation, a panel of PAs and NPs, and in-person breakout and networking sessions. Champion and explore trailblazing career paths with your colleagues!
2023 Musculoskeletal Galaxy
- June 10 – 14, 2023
Registration is now open! Join us in Austin, Texas for a well-rounded foundation on essential orthopaedic topics. Ideal for PAs and NPs who are new to orthopaedics, as well as those who see musculoskeletal conditions in family practice, emergency medicine, or urgent care.
AAPA Virtual Town Hall Meeting
- June 28, 2023
Join us at 8 p.m. ET and hear timely updates about what is happening at AAPA and the Student Academy. Then, we’ll pass the leadership gavel to our new president-elect and board of directors and the floor will open for questions. Register now to engage with your peers!
2023 Adult Hospital Medicine Boot Camp
- September 20 – 24, 2023
Registration is now open for Boot Camp, held this year in Denver, Colorado! Brush up on commonly encountered diagnoses and diseases of adult hospitalized patients at this conference brought to you by AAPA and the Society of Hospital Medicine. Learn current, evidence-based topics and network with like-minded practitioners. It’s the perfect course for PAs and NPs new to adult hospital medicine!
2023 Leadership and Advocacy Summit
- September 28 – September 30, 2023
Join your PA and PA student colleagues in the nation’s capital to learn about key developments facing the profession, association management, leadership best practices, and advocacy skill-building. You’ll even have the opportunity to meet with Congressional legislators.
Annual Membership Meeting: Virtual
- December 15, 2021, 8:00 – 9:00 PM EST
AAPA members are invited to attend this virtual meeting that includes updates from AAPA leaders and the opportunity to participate in a Q&A session. Registration closes Monday, Dec. 13 at 11:59 p.m. EST.
CME On Demand
Find many sessions from our top live events online and learn anytime, anywhere. Choose the sessions you need from the comprehensive digital libraries, or save on the bundle packages.
PA Like a Pro Webinar Series
- Available Webinars: 27
Short, impactful digital learning opportunities geared towards PA students and early career PAs. Don’t miss important topics like financial planning and budgeting, job search strategies, and surviving rotations.
Clinical Conversations Webinar Series
- Available Webinars: 4
Tune into these timely conversations to discuss challenges and opportunities, clinical breakthroughs, healthcare advancements, public policy and programs, and PAs in innovative roles. These webinars are not CME-eligible.
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion CME Webinar Series
- CME Eligible
- Available Webinars: 6
Promoting equity and justice in healthcare exemplifies the values of the PA profession and is the responsibility of each and every PA with the support and leadership of AAPA.
2022 AAPA-PAEA Research Seminar Series
- CME Eligible
- Available Webinars: 10
Now open to all members! Strengthen your clinical research skills to learn more about the communities you serve with expert-led presentations on accessing data, grant writing, publishing in medical journals, and more.
Pre-PA Webinars
- Available Webinars: 9
PA experts walk you through how to ace your PA school interviews, perfect your application, rock your personal statement, and make yourself a competitive applicant! Find out about our next live webinar on April 1!
2021 Executive Leadership Tuesdays
- CME Eligible
- Available Webinars: 5
Check out AAPA’s interactive healthcare leadership webinar series for current or aspiring clinical or administrative leaders. Register now for access to all 5 webinar recordings in the Executive Leadership Tuesdays series.