PA History
The AAPA launched this annual celebration to promote awareness of the PA profession, beginning in 2006.
What is PA Week?
While not a PA, he is credited with founding the PA profession in 1965 at Duke University, helping to establish the first PA program
Who is Eugene A. Stead?
Requiring a prescription, PAs can prescribe these in all 50 states as of 1997
What are controlled substances?
This neurodegenerative disease presents with resting tremor, bradykinesia, rigidity, and postural instability
What is PArkinson's disease?
This organization was established in 1972 to ensure the certification of PAs through examinations.
What is the NCCPA?
The first female PA and the first African American PA in the United States. She was instrumental in advocating for diversity within the profession.
Who is Joyce Nichols?
This model allows PAs to work with physicians and other healthcare providers to deliver comprehensive care to patients.
What is team-based care?
This emergency condition presents with severe pain, paresthesia, and tense swelling after trauma, and requires immediate fasciotomy.
What is comPArtment syndrome?
In 1971, this was the first state to grant PAs legal status and licensure.
What is California?
Past president of TAPA and currently teaches PA professions at WCU
Who is Ryan English?
PAs are required to complete 100 hours of this every two years to maintain certification and stay current in medical practice.
What is continued medical education (CME)?
This finding is characterized by optic disc swelling due to increased intracranial pressure and may present with headaches and vision changes.
What is PApilledema?
This year marks the founding of the first PA program at Duke University.
What is 1965?
This is the current president of TAPA
Who is Monica Ward?
To prescribe controlled substances, PAs must obtain this unique identifier from a government agency.
What is the DEA number?
A patient with severe epigastric pain radiating to the back, elevated lipase, and a history of heavy alcohol use or gallstones may have this condition.
What is PAncreatitis?
This term refers to the ACA's initiative to reduce hospital readmission rates, impacting how healthcare providers, including PAs, deliver care.
What is value-based care?
A PA recognized for his leadership in the PA community, he worked on the front lines during the COVID-19 pandemic and has served in key AAPA leadership roles.
Who is Jeffrey Katz?
PAs are authorized to develop and manage this for patients, which encompasses medications, referrals, and follow-up care.
What is a treatment plan?
This liver condition presents with jaundice, fatigue, dark urine, and elevated liver enzymes, and can be caused by viral infection, alcohol, or toxins.
What is hePAtitis?