The Applicant’s Manual of Physician Assistant Programs

The Applicant’s Manual of Physician Assistant Programs

Updated: 06/03/2016

I met Mark Volpe in November 2015 at a the Inaugural Future Educator Fellowship (FEF) PAEA Conference. Mark is a standup guy and his dedication to aide pre-PA students after entering the workforce really speaks to his character and motivation. Mark is also the coauthor of a book inspired to help pre-PA students easily navigate the pre-application process in hopes to narrowing the search for a PA-program-home.

The Applicant’s Manual of Physician Assistant Programs provides tips and tricks for navigating the application process and gives students useful and comprehensive information about every single accredited PA program in the US. This not only saves the student time in the exhausting and taxing search through PA program websites, but also provides the most important information about each school in a single comprehensive text to use at your own disposal. This manual easily helps to narrow down your list of potential PA programs and gain a competitive edge - the first step to applying to PA school.

Key features include:
1. An introduction section which reviews the basics of the PA school application and admissions process

Physician Assistants, Doctors, and Nurse Practitioners

Physician Assistants, Doctors, and Nurse Practitioners

Updated: 03/15/2016

Over the last 200 years, several million public books and publications were archived into a database where a word search counted the number of times “physician assistant” or “nurse practitioner” was used. You can see the preliminary results here. Not so surprisingly, "physician assistant" began to pop up around the same time as "nurse practitioner," however, more folks seem to quote nurse practitioners in their novels than physician assistants. Could it be because your average American is less educated about all mid-level providers? Is AAPA doing a poor job of promoting physician assistants in the United States? Are nurse practitioner lobbyist groups stronger than we anticipated? Or is it because there are simply less well-known physician assistants in the scientific community? These are questions I do not have answers for, but if you're curious about the difference between the three different types of advanced providers, please keep reading and enjoy!