Free Category 1 CME Credit Opportunity

Free Category 1 CME Credit Opportunity

Updated: 07/11/2016

I wanted to take the time to introduce Matt Borges, who has been a PA since 2007.  After graduating from Wake Forest University, Matt spent the majority of his professional career in emergency medicine, where he says every day is an opportunity to encounter the unexpected.  Over the last few years, he has had the pleasure of precepting students, which he claims to serve as a real life reminder that the more you think you know, the more you realize you always have plenty to learn.  

Over the past year, Matt has taken an interest in online educational webinars. While they were initially targeted toward PA students, they spread to an array of health care professionals. Webinars were originally designed to cater to APC's in emergency rooms, urgent cares, and primary care offices, but they also offer exposure to health professionals early in their careers who are still trying to sort what best suits their interests.  

Matt typically teams up with a physician, serving as the expert opinion in their particular field, and walks through cases pertinent to the particular topic. This format has been met with positive reviews, and offers a methodical approach to common issues encountered.  He works to produce webinars every few months, with free registration and opportunity for 1 hour of category 1 CME credit.  

The most current program is on common presentations of pediatric fevers in an ED, happening Tuesday July 12th at 7:30 PM-8:30 PM Eastern Time.  

Registration Here

I hope you'll find a topic that interests you, and check one out, soon!

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Matthew M. Borges, PA-C, MMS

APC Director, Virginia Emergency Medicine Associates

www.vemadocs.com

Introduction to EKGs for Physician Assistants

Intro to Electrocardiograms for Physician Assistants

Updated: 07/08/2016

Electrocardiocardiograms can be difficult to tackle and I know that this is a topic that I repeatedly visit, both for simple things like delineating PVCs (premature ventricular contractions) from PACs (premature atrial contractions) and denoting what defines a second degree type 1 versus a second degree type 2 heart block. But there’s so much more than just that - there’s right and left bundle branch blocks, right and left ventricular hypertrophy, ischemia, infarction, axis deviation, atrial hypertrophy, etc. While this is a very limited approach to EKGs and while there is still much to learn about them, this is a great introduction to EKGs for any student, whether you are pre-med, pre-PA, pre-NP, pre-nursing, or pre any other health profession. At the end of the review are a few helpful questions provided by TrueLearn you can use after you’ve studied the review, which offer you some insight into the type of questions and degree of exam preparation offered. I hope that you find them as useful as I have. Good luck and let me know if there are any errors or questions!

Electrocardiogram (ECG): records the electrical activity of the heart and information about the heart’s function and structure

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My Plans After Graduation

The flexibility of the PA profession allows us all to practice medicine in various specialties, subspecialties, primary care, population health, public policy, internationally, and beyond. Do you have any fascinating plans after PA school? Planning to work or volunteer abroad? Working for the Peace Corps? Applying for postgraduate fellowships, residencies, or other post-graduate training? First Rounds - PA Professional's student news section - is looking for stories about unique opportunities after PA school.

Tell us how your plans after PA school are unique. We ask that articles be no longer than 600 words and written in a conversational manner. For more information or to submit a proposal, contact First Rounds at FirstRoundsSubmission@gmail.com. First drafts are due by July 30th, 2016.

The PA Foundation Reception

The PA Foundation Reception

Updated on: 07/04/2016

A few months ago I was asked to speak at the PA Foundation’s Donor Recognition Breakfast at the 2016 AAPA Conference, which I was eager to accept especially after all that they had done for me in the preceding months. [Insert: I was previously accepted as one of the 18 recipients and the 2015 Bristol-Myers Squibb Endowed Scholarship Recipient]. More on Bristol Myers Squibb here.

I don’t say, ‘Thank You’ often enough for the hard work others put in, but it is definitely deserved. So, ‘thank you’ to everyone at AAPA and the PA Foundation who work tirelessly to ensure that students like myself can achieve their dreams of becoming a PA on top of making other milestones for our profession. Special thanks to Caroline Pierce and Key Ideas for working on my ‘impromptu nonsense of a speech’ and creating this incredible video to promote the PA Foundation Scholarships for future PA students.