Students

2018’s PA Student of the Year winner embodies exemplary service, advocacy, and leadership to the PA profession. Blake Rogers coordinates volunteer activities, chairs social media committees, and participates in grassroots advocacy – all while making sure his homework is done on time.

Each year, more than 80 PA programs from across the country compete in the AAPA National Medical Challenge Bowl. Challenge Bowl, the hallmark student event at AAPA’s Conference, a high-energy game-show-format competition in which students answer questions on a variety of clinical topics.

Although his university’s PA program matriculates in January each year, Kristopher Roy Maday, MS, PA-C, Associate Professor and Program Director at University of Tennessee Health Science Center, thinks about things he wishes he would have said or done early on with his students that would have saved some difficult conversations later on.

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) announced last week that PA students can now participate in the Health Professional Scholarship Program (HPSP). The VA awards scholarships to students receiving education or training to become a health professional. 

My name is Alexa Llewellyn and I am a second-year Physician Assistant student from the University of Pittsburgh. I am currently finishing my final clinical rotation and will be taking the PANCE on February 27, 2016. I completed my undergraduate degree in Health Sciences at Lock Haven University in 2013. Prior to embarking on my journey to becoming a PA, I worked as a nurse aide on a med/surg and orthopedic unit at my hometown medical center.