Directory / Health Professions / Physician Assistant

Physician Assistant History Office
Offers information about the profession's origins, philosophy, structure. Includes mission statement, goals, timeline, biographies, new exhibits, trivia questions, and references. [Some links require Adobe Acrobat.]

Center of Excellence for Remote & Medically Under Served Areas
CERMUSA is the brainchild of the physician assistant program at St. Francis College. Director Bert Simon is a pioneer in distance education technologies and helped assemble CERMUSA to combine computer and communications technologies to improve access to

Centralized Application Service for PA Programs
CASPA offers applicants a convenient, state-of the-art, Web-based application service that will allow you to apply to any number of participating PA educational programs by completing a single application. CASPA offers an on-line application, less paperwo

PhysicianAssociate.Com
The physician assistant resource center. This site offers a quarterly newsletter, bookstore, polls, message forum and free classifieds with job listings and situations wanted.

Medical-PA.Com
Free e-mail service for physician assistant professionals, pa students, and prospective students.

PALinx: Current Physician Assistants News
A free online tool to keep Physician Assistants and other clinicians up-to-date.

What is a Physician's Assistant?
Short description of the functions and responsibilities of a PA, written for the layperson. Provided by Skaggs Community Health Center.