Jill Schulten, PA-S, chose Barry University’s St. Croix campus for PA school because of the experiences it offered her – working with a tight-knit community, making a difference through volunteer work, and adventuring on the island. She didn’t expect her time there to include devastating Category 5 hurricanes, or the ripple effects the storm created.

After serving for several years as a combat medic in the Army National Guard, PA Curt Kroh works with a unique patient population of veterans in a Bismarck, North Dakota Community Based Outpatient Clinic. He says “There are times when you feel like you’re getting crushed. But there’s no more satisfying career that being a PA.”

Point-of-care ultrasound is an affordable and useful diagnostic tool, and PAs are a natural fit to bring this expertise to an increasing number of specialties and practice environments.

Despite growing recognition for the value of palliative care, the majority of healthcare practitioners have insufficient training to provide a basic level of palliative care to their patients. PAHPM helped design a new one-hour course for PAs.