How to Undo Systemic Racism in Higher Education Faculty Hiring
January 20, 2023
Assistant Dean of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Veronica Carey, PhD welcomed Marybeth Gasman, PhD, author and Samuel DeWitt Proctor Endowed Chair and a distinguished professor in the Graduate School of Education at Rutgers University, for an open dialogue about systemic racism in higher education with regard to hiring and retaining faculty of color.
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Spotlight On: Andrew Kelly
November 17, 2022
"I take pride in the students that I mentor knowing that I gave them a great 10 weeks of education...My students keep me young at heart."
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Spotlight On: Julie Kinzel, PA-C
November 17, 2022
"It’s incumbent on the newest providers to change the system and pay attention to how we can make access to health care more equitable in this country."
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Getting to Know Our PA Students
November 17, 2022
Jose Cuadro '22 and Cassie Job '23 share a passion for advocating for their patients, improving health care access and delivery — and Rihanna.
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Spotlight On: Rebecca Baldwin '19
November 17, 2022
"Make no assumptions about your patients. Each person has a unique story that deserves to be heard with fresh eyes and ears so they get the best medical care you are able to provide."
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CNHP Graduation Highlights and Awards
June 21, 2022
On June 9, 2022, the College of Nursing and Health Professions held their college graduation ceremony at the Mann Center for the Performing Arts before the University's commencement ceremony at Citizen's Bank Park. Speakers and award winners are highlighted.
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Get to Know Our PA Students
April 26, 2022
Both Justin Judilla and Amanda Rogers knew they wanted to work in medicine from a young age - find out why they chose to become physician assistants!
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Drexel Health Sciences Building Updates
April 08, 2022
The ground has been broken on the Drexel Academic Tower, the new home for the College of Nursing and Health Professions in the University City Campus. Periodic updates, photos and video will be posted so you can feel part of the project.
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Alumni Spotlight: Eric Greene '15
April 01, 2022
"I fell in love with the profession during high school when I was volunteering at my local hospital... I realized that PAs embodied the future of medicine."
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Having Support Makes All the Difference
March 30, 2022
Jen Ensor has always enjoyed helping others in all areas of life. Throughout high school, she was focused on making a difference and planned to work in a hands-on field after graduation. With clear objectives in mind, she enlisted in the U.S. Army Reserve. After completing basic training, Jen began training to become an Army medic, then worked alongside a physician assistant and Drexel alum, who was practicing at Fort Belvoir, Virginia. Inspired by his competence and professionalism, Jen decided this was a career she wanted to learn more about and consider for her future.
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Shining a Black Light Week Four
February 21, 2022
This is the fourth of a weekly Black History Month 2022 feature celebrating members of the CNHP community who contribute daily to the success of the College.
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Shining a Black Light Week Two
February 07, 2022
This is the second of a weekly Black History Month 2022 feature celebrating members of the CNHP community who contribute daily to the success of the College.
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Longevity at Drexel Recognized Annually
January 07, 2022
Every year Drexel recognizes faculty and professional staff for their years of service to the university. The people who have dedicated so much of their professional lives to the education of future leaders are the backbone of the university.
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New Ambition Can't Wait commercial to start airing
December 20, 2021
On November 16, 2021, the College of Nursing and Health Professions in partnership with Offices of University Communications and Enrollment Management & Student Success filmed an Ambition Can't Wait commercial portraying a disaster simulation exercise. Students, alumni, faculty and professional staff took part in the one-day taping at the New College Building on Drexel's Center City Campus.
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Transgender Day of Remembrance
November 19, 2021
On this Transgender Day of Remembrance, we reflect on our mission for health equity and social justice and how we respond to the healthcare needs of transgender individuals.
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The Barnes Experience
November 11, 2021
Through a joint venture pioneered by Drexel’s Physician Assistant Program, educational experts in the PA program and at the Barnes have developed programming that teaches participants critical work and life skills through observing and discussing art.
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PA Alumni News
November 10, 2021
What are your former classmates up to? Travel, babies and joining the PA faculty!
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PA Student News
November 10, 2021
From service projects to scholarships, check out what our current students are up to.
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Passing the Mic
May 03, 2021
Adrian Banning, DHSc, MMS, PA-C, and Kristopher Maday, MS, PA-C, DFAAPA, created and have been hosting the JAAPA podcast for four years. The pair met through social media, pitched the idea to JAAPA, and with support throughout the community, have produced nearly 60 episodes since 2017. Now they are handing over the mics to the next hosting duo, two Drexel University College of Nursing and Health Professions alumni.
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PA Alumni News
April 29, 2021
What are your former classmates up to? Lecturers, an alum on the news, FIGHTing COVID and more!
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Get to Know our PA Students
April 26, 2021
These two students may have grown up in different parts of the world, but they share the same mission: making a difference in people's lives by improving healthcare to under-resourced populations.
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Celebrating Service During National Volunteer Week
April 20, 2021
Civic engagement is at the foundation of the College of Nursing and Health Professions, and touches the lives of everyone in the community. Read about some faculty, professional staff and student volunteers and how they found inspiration to give their time outside of work to help others.
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Alumni Spotlight: Holly Thomas
November 06, 2020
From small town girl to UPMC Children’s Hospital’s very first physician assistant, Holly Thomas paves her own way as she leads a transplant and immunocompromised clinic and cares for pediatric infectious diseases.
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Faculty Spotlight: Daniela Cheles Livingston, MD, PA-C
November 06, 2020
Daniela Livingston began her career in medicine halfway around the world, but since landing at Drexel nearly 20 years ago, she has dedicated herself to furthering the PA profession through curriculum development, faculty mentorship and team productivity. Be sure to check out her fun fact!
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Get to Know Our PA Students
November 06, 2020
The two students highlighted in this edition may have been inspired by different situations, but both chose the PA profession because of their desire to help medically vulnerable and underserved populations.
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PA Faculty In the Spotlight
March 19, 2020
We celebrate the long and distinguished career of Gretchen Fox '91, PA-C and her dedication to the education of physician assistants.
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Get to Know Our PA Students
March 09, 2020
The two students we are highlighting in this edition have wanting to have a career in healthcare in common. Ann Bonner was a kid when she realized the appeal of caring for people, but she was older when she figured out that being a physician assistant would combine all aspects she loves. Alec Proctor wasn’t sure how to realize his dream of a career in medicine until he found this profession.
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Alumni Spotlight: Shaina DePaul '16, PA-C
March 09, 2020
Shaina DePaul has a relative she particularly admired growing up, and because her aunt is a nurse, DePaul was able to land her first job in medicine early in her life. It was there that she discovered nurse practitioners and physician assistants, and the rest, as they say, is history. After graduating from Drexel’s program in 2016, this New York physician assistant and her husband take advantage of their new home city and their love of travel every chance they can.
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CNHP Honors 2020 People of Purpose
March 05, 2020
Two years ago, Dean Gitlin launched a project that would celebrate and showcase people who represented the a deep-seated sense of purpose. In February, the College, along with 80 attendees, celebrated the 2020 People of Purpose at an event much like the inaugural of 2019.
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A Farewell to Pat Auth, PhD
November 07, 2019
Dr. Pat Auth leaves an indelible mark on the College of Nursing and Health Professions. His contributions to the College and the Physician Assistant program were celebrated at a farewell party last spring.
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What's News
November 06, 2019
Click here to read about all the fantastic things our PA students are doing.
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Get to Know Our PA Students
November 05, 2019
No matter what unique reasons students give for seeking careers as physician assistants, one thing most give for selecting CNHP’s program are the same. McAllister Egbire-Molen and Zach Clark both talk about the mission of our program as their deciding factor.
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Investing in the future always entails sacrifice
November 05, 2019
Both Lauren Weaver and Randall Faber saw futures in healthcare. Becoming physician assistants seemed to be the best path to meet their goals to serve and heal. Get to know these alumni, their advice for current students and how they relax and rejuvenate when they're not working.
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Spotlight on Alumni: Sarah Smith
July 01, 2019
While this PA alumna specializes in infectious disease, most of her days are spent providing care, primary, gynecological, mental health and substance abuse treatment—whatever care her patients need—and administrative support as chief quality officer at FIGHT.
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Spotlight on Alumni: Kimberly Oelschlager
July 01, 2019
This physician assistant serves her country and her patients at Marine Corps Recruit Depot, Parris Island and Naval Hospital Beaufort in South Carolina. Her core values provide the foundation of her personal philosophy, something that is very apparent in her care.
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R & B News
April 24, 2018
With the addition of Associate Dean Stephanie Brooks, PhD, LCSW, LMFT as a contributor, Rundiogram has become R & B News. Brooks will be providing highlights from health professions while Rundio continues to write about nursing.
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Special Acknowledgments
April 24, 2018
Power over Pain is seeking group participants for this eight week program where members will learn about pain and what they can do to manage it.
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CNHP Clinical Practices Round-up
January 16, 2018
Ever wonder about CNHP’s practices? Where are they? Who they serve? What services are available at these practices? Read the Round-up to get an overview, then read all the individual articles posted highlighting the people who make these places run.
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Rundiogram
January 15, 2018
This is a monthly column highlighting the accomplishments of the faculty and students. It started as a column just for nursing, but we're expanding and renaming it. In the next issue of Off the Charts, look for "R & B Notes" by Al Rundio, PhD who continues to talk up nursing and Stephanie Brooks, PhD who will highlight health professions.
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News at 11
January 11, 2018
For 19 years, the nurse-led Stephen and Sandra Sheller 11th Street Family Health Services has been touting a message of an integrative approach to health. Its people, patients, staff, and neighbors alike, benefit from such a great center.
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Community Wellness Services at the HUB
January 09, 2018
It took over a year to gather information from residents of Mantua and Powelton Village before the Community Wellness HUB opened its doors. Looking at health concerns, Loretta Jemmott, PhD and her team created seven key areas for services.
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IPER Roles and Responsibilities
January 09, 2018
IPER's Brown Bag Lunch Series is off to a great start. New collaborative working groups are forming, ideas are being exchanged and faculty and students are getting excited about what learning outcomes will result from this series and work. Read the story to see how you can get involved.
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Out of the Womb and Into the Clinic
October 31, 2017
Hope Cline followed in her mother’s, father’s, grandparents’ and brothers’ footsteps and those of quite a few relatives. Cline would be going into a healthcare profession, but she had to choose and decided to take the path of her mother.
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Experience, Love and a Dedication to Students
October 30, 2017
Inspired by her father’s service in the medical corps, alumna and clinical instructor Clare Pisoni followed a path leading her to become a physician assistant. Now she is teaching in the program that taught her to be a skilled and compassionate PA.
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45th Anniversary Celebration
October 30, 2017
Celebrating a big milestone, alumni, faculty, staff, students and friends came together to share stories, to catch up on each other’s careers and watch as Evelyn Eskin and David Major, MD received the Sherry Stolberg Alumni Award.
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Two Unique Peas in the CNHP Pod
September 20, 2017
From an intensive study abroad research project to student ambassador to EMT, accelerated health sciences students Lauren Certo and Valerie Iovine are taking opportunities no other place than Drexel College of Nursing and Health Professions would afford them.
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Commencement Activities and Celebrations
July 05, 2017
Academic excellence and hopes for the future were celebrated and shared at the Mann Center for the Performing Arts at CNHP’s commencement exercises. Graduates received sage advice and life’s lessons from two student commencement speakers and the incoming CEO of BAYADA Home Health Care on June 12.
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With Graditude for Your Service: 2017 Retirements
June 03, 2017
No matter how long an individual has been at the College of Nursing and Health Professions, be it faculty or staff, his or her contributions to the success of educating our students and changing the delivery of healthcare will be recognized for years to come.
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Persistence is Paramount for Accelerated Physician Assistant Student
February 15, 2016
Even as a high school student, Dylan Stempel ’17 knew he wanted to be a physician assistant (PA) and wasn’t going to let anything get in his way. Stempel, a Connecticut native, was determined not only to expose himself to the PA profession, but to find the most efficient path to becoming one.
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A Message from Dean Gloria Donnelly
January 19, 2016
New employment projections from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics show the impact of the national movement to improve health and care delivery. Over the next 10 years, health care occupations will be the leading source of job creation in the United States. The health care sector and social services sector will account for nearly 40% of the net increase in employment through 2024, adding 3.8 million jobs. Wow!
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Veterans in Drexel's PA Program Continue Longstanding Military Connection for the Profession
December 08, 2015
The physician assistant (PA) profession is deeply rooted in the military with ties dating back to 1965 – the year the nation’s first “physician assistant” educational program was inaugurated at Duke University. The Program accepted four former Navy medical corpsmen. Other veterans were inspired by this potential career path, thanks in part to a Reader’s Digest article about careers in health care noting the PA profession and a White House Conference on Health that same year that discussed the use of former military corpsmen/medics as “assistant medical officers,” and inquiries began to flood.
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Building a Diverse Population of Drexel PA Students
September 23, 2015
Juanita Gardner, MPH, PA-C, clinical assistant professor in the Physician Assistant (PA) Department at Drexel University, is leading an initiative to diversify the student body within the department. With changes in policy that make health care more accessible, like the Affordable Care Act, Gardner is taking action to ensure that future PAs represent the patient populations they will one day treat.
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Clay Warnick, MD, Keynote Speech
September 08, 2015
The White Coat Ceremony marks the transition of physician assistant students form the didactic to clinical phase of their education. On Thursday, September 3, 2015 the PA Class of 2016 celebrated with their family and friends this momentous occasion. This is a remarkable class of physician assistant students, characterized by their dedication to the community, commitment to providing high quality healthcare for their patient and the spirit to support each other to be the best PAs possible.
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Before and After Clinical: Two PA Students Share their Perspectives
August 27, 2015
The primary goal of Drexel’s Physician Assistant (PA) Program is to develop graduates who are competent, caring physician assistants, possessing the skills of life-long learning needed to incorporate new knowledge and methods into their practices and to adapt to a changing medical environment.
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Physician Assistant Olympics
May 28, 2015
On April 18th, the students from the Drexel University Physician Assistant Program participated in the 13th Annual Physician Assistant Olympics, which was founded on the principle of philanthropy.
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PA Students Receive Their White Coats
September 25, 2014
On September 4, the Physician Assistant Department held its annual White Coat ceremony, which marks the transition students make between their didactic and clinical years of study at Drexel.
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What’s Next for Our Dragons?
July 14, 2014
Hundreds of College of Nursing and Health Professions students- both undergraduate and graduate- crossed the stage at the University’s 120th Commencement Exercises on June 13.
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Radhika Parikh: Her Passion for Multidisciplinary Learning
February 19, 2014
Radhika Parikh is a junior in the Accelerated Physician Assistant Program at the College of Nursing and Health Professions. She is also pursuing a minor in business from the LeBow College of Business. In this interview, Parikh gives insight into the benefits of completing a minor at Drexel, and how it has helped her become a well-rounded student.
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CNHP Prepared Pre-Physician Assistant Student Shivani Amin for CHOP Co-op
October 09, 2013
For junior student Shivani Amin, who is currently studying in the 5-year accelerated Pre-Physician Assistant Program, the Drexel College of Nursing and Health Professions (CNHP) could not have been a better fit. Situated in the fifth largest city in the United States and connected to seemingly boundless opportunities worldwide, Drexel University and the CNHP have helped shape Amin’s career goals early in her education...
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PA Students Host Smoking Cessation Lecture at Project H.O.M.E.
August 14, 2013
Drexel’s College of Nursing and Health Professions’ Physician Assistant students Anna Boccardo and Darence Thong gave a lecture about smoking cessation to residents at Project H.O.M.E., a halfway house in Philadelphia that helps formerly homeless people adjust during transitions...
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Physician Assistant Student Sara Bunyaratapan Attends Student Leadership Symposium
July 29, 2013
Sara Bunyaratapan, a first year Physician Assistant student at Drexel University, received a highly competitive scholarship to attend the 12th Annual Paul Ambrose Scholars Program Symposium, held June 20-23 in Washington, DC. She joined 45 other medical, Physician Assistant, dental, pharmacy, physical therapy, and graduate nursing students dedicated to bringing health promotion and preventive approaches to health professions education and their communities...
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Students Take Interdisciplinary Initiative, Creating First-ever Health Professions Dinner
July 29, 2013
Drexel students Scott Naples and Amanda Malik brought together the College of Nursing and Health Professions and School of Public Health for the first-ever Health Professions Dinner, where attendees discussed interdisciplinary medical practices. In a large group discussion, students from the Physician Assistant Program reviewed two medical cases with students from the School of Public Health, one about an HIV patient and another about immunization clinical trials...
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Alumni Update: Where are they now?
May 09, 2013
Christian Brenner, MHS ’13, joined the practice of Premier Orthopaedic Associates of South Jersey in Vineland New Jersey as a Physician Assistant. Brenner previously worked as an athletic trainer and physical therapy assistant...
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Professor Nina Multak Recieves Distinguished Fellow Award
January 16, 2013
Due to the quantity and quality of her personal research, involvement, and dedication to the Physician Assistant profession during the past 25 years, assistant clinical professor Nina Multak has been recognized as a Distinguished Fellow of the American Academy of Physician Assistants (AAPA).
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The Student Perspective
October 15, 2012
“This program felt like a good fit and the faculty was very approachable. I think they do a good job at emphasizing taking what you learned in class and translating it to the clinical experience,” said Lauren Weaver, a member of the Physician Assistant Class of 2013...
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The Givers: PA Student Society Works to Improve Lives
October 15, 2012
The Wilbur B. Oaks Physician Assistant Student Society was named for Dr. Oaks, an internal medicine PA who retired from the College’s PA Program faculty two years ago and was instrumental in starting the Program here in 1971. While the Student Society once focused much of its attention on planning fun social events for...
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Simulation for PA Education and Assessment
October 15, 2012
“We were using Standardized Patients and simulation back in the mid-90s. Our students were required to complete Standardized Patient exercises before graduation. Back then, it was a way for us to evaluate what the students had learned. Now, though, we’re using it as an education tool in every single course,” said Nina Multak, Assistant Clinical Professor in the PA Department...
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Physician Assistant Week: Celebrating PAs Nationwide
October 15, 2012
Physician Assistant Week, which occurs every year between October 6 and 12, is dedicated to celebrating the Physician Assistant (PA) profession across the country. Started by the American Academy of Physician Assistants, PA Week is a tradition...
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PA Department Welcomes New Faculty Member Juanita Gardner
October 15, 2012
Juanita A. Gardner, MPH, BS, PA-C, joined the PA Department faculty in May 2012. In her role, she facilitates small group learning, teaches in the classroom setting, conducts site visits, creates relationships with new clinical rotation sites in urban...
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A Leader Down in the Trenches: Meet Department Chair Patrick Auth
October 15, 2012
Drexel’s Physician Assistant Program, which is known for its diversity, mission, community engagement, and outstanding curriculum, owes much of its success to a leader who never stops innovating. Patrick Auth, PhD, MS, PA-C, Associate Clinical Professor and Physician Assistant Department Chair, believes wholeheartedly...
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Drexel’s PA Program Returns to its Roots
October 15, 2012
The Physician Assistant profession developed during the 1940s when United States military personnel returned from World War II with hands-on medical experience in the field but without a formal education or degree that would allow them to practice on civilians. The first PA curriculum was created by Eugene Stead...
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It’s all About the Mission
October 15, 2012
The mission of the PA Department at the College of Nursing and Health Professions is twofold: to educate Physician Assistants to work in medically underserved areas and to promote the PA profession.
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The College is Awarded 2 Federal Grants for Student Scholarships
October 01, 2012
The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) awarded the College of Nursing and Health Professions two federal grants for scholarships that will help disadvantaged students in the Physican Assistant and Couple and Family Therapy programs. The College’s detailed student...
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