Although physician assistant postgraduate residency programs have been around for 35 years,it’s only in the past decade that they’ve really started to catch on. In 1998 there were 17 programs; today ...

Sonographer performing ultrasound on girls leg. Is it realistic to add point-of-care ultrasound training to the curriculum of entry-level PA programs or should this be taught in a CME, post-graduate, ...

Eugene Stead Jr., MD, founded the physician assistant profession when he established the first PA training program at Durham, N.C.-based Duke University in 1965. Dr. Stead created the program in ...

Every physician assistant practicing today owes the profession's existence to combat medics and Navy corpsmen who proved that ...

A physician assistant (PA) is a health care professional who works with doctors and gives medical treatment. You can find physician assistants in virtually all primary care and specialty medical ...