PAs Deliver Healthcare to U.S. Asylum-Seeking Immigrant Families

PAs and other medical providers are part of teams providing care to immigrants in Arizona seeking asylum, often purchasing medications with their own funds. Elizabeth Lopez-Murray, PA-C, shares her experiences volunteering during this humanitarian crisis.

February 12, 2019

5 Ways to Use AAPA’s Salary Report

Two PAs share the ways AAPA’s Salary Report helped them prepare for negotiations, evaluate offers, change specialties, and advise PA colleagues, students, and employers. Then, take the 2019 Salary Survey to help make PA compensation more competitive.

February 6, 2019

As a Future Prescriber, I Pledge to Pause

Alexa Brooks is committed to preventing abuse and misuse of prescription opioids. She shares her motivation for signing the “Pledge to Pause Before You Prescribe” and urges healthcare providers to take a moment to talk with patients before prescribing an opioid medication.

February 1, 2019

Advice for New Grads: Choosing Your Specialty

PA Verdale Benson knows that PA career flexibility is both a blessing a burden. His advice to new grads who are trying to choose a specialty: pursue your passion and maximize your career-growth potential.

February 1, 2019

PAs Now Eligible for Licensure in Puerto Rico

New rules adopted by the Puerto Rico Department of Health will finally allow PAs to obtain a license to practice in Puerto Rico. The effort to authorize PA practice in Puerto Rico has been a decades-long joint effort by AAPA, PAs for Puerto Rico and PAs for Latino Health.

January 30, 2019

3 Career Benefits of Winning an Award

Have you ever considered participating in healthcare-related awards competitions? Applying offers three real professional benefits to applicants even if you don’t win. AAPA sponsors annual awards designed to celebrate excellence and service by PAs. Nominations are due Feb. 15.

January 29, 2019

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