Calling All Applications for AAPA 2025!

Applications are open for CME presentations and presentation graders for AAPA 2025. Participating is not only a chance for PAs to educate one another, but an opportunity to create lasting partnerships and build on the already robust PA profession.

June 17, 2024

AAPA: SCOTUS Mifepristone Ruling Protects PAs’ Prescribing Rights

The American Academy of Physician Associates (AAPA), released the following statement, on the Supreme Court of the United States’ (SCOTUS) decision to overturn a Fifth Circuit ruling that placed restrictions on mifepristone, including stripping away PA prescribing rights. 

June 13, 2024

AAPA Announces 46 New Distinguished Fellows

This year, AAPA is pleased to welcome 60 PAs to join the ranks of the Distinguished Fellow (DFAAPA) Program. As the association’s most dedicated members, Distinguished Fellows are recognized for their outstanding contributions to the profession and the communities they serve. The 2024 Distinguished Fellows go beyond for their patients, their communities, and the profession as a whole.

June 12, 2024

Top 10 Highest Paying Specialties in the PA Profession in 2023

The PA profession includes clinicians who work in over 60 specialties, ranging from family medicine and urgent care to transplant surgery and dermatology. In 2023, cardiovascular/cardiothoracic surgery was the highest-paying PA specialty.

June 6, 2024

Inspired by the Outdoors? Check Out Wilderness Medicine

David Braun, PA-C, and Angela Widler, PA-C, share a lifelong enjoyment of the outdoors. They co-founded the PAs in Wilderness Medicine special interest group to raise awareness of the specialty and the many wilderness medicine opportunities available to PAs and PA students.

June 5, 2024

AAPA Board of Directors General Election Results Are In!

Following a two-week voting period, AAPA members elected four PAs to help lead the profession into the future. Members selected a new president-elect, secretary-treasurer, and filled two director-at-large positions for the coming leadership term, which begins on July 1, 2024.

June 5, 2024

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