March 2005 Announcements

CME Credit To Be Awarded for Select APAP Workshops

The APAP Semiannual Meeting has been reviewed and approved for a maximum of 5.75 hours of professional Category I CME credit by the Physician Assistant Review Panel. Physician assistants should claim only those hours actually spent participating in the CME activity.

Sessions Approved for Professional Credit

• The Four Major Appeals: A Case-based Approach to Ethical Decision-making Instruction — 1 hour
• The Three P s: Preceptors, Professionalism, and Pearls — 1 hour
• Preparing Clinicians to Precept — 1 hour
• The Use of Standardized and Simulated Patients in the PA Curriculum — 1 hour
• The Marriage of Modified PBL with Standardized Patients to Evaluate Students’ Cultural Competency —1 hour
• The Spiritual History: Innovations for PA Programs — .75 hour

Please see descriptions of these presentations and others designed for faculty attending APAP’s Semiannual Meeting in Orlando.

The PA Foundation Announces the Breitman-Dorn Research Fellowship

The Physician Assistant Foundation is pleased to announce that the Breitman-Dorn Graduate Research Fellowship will once again be awarded this year and asks that you please pass this information on to any candidate who is eligible. Applicants must be in the dissertation stage of a Ph.D. program, and the research must be in progress, rather than at the dissemination stage. All applications must be postmarked no later than April 15, 2005. The recipient will be selected in May 2005 and will be announced at AAPA’s Annual Conference. A $3,000 grant will be disbursed in August. For more information, please visit the following link: http://www.aapa.org/paf/bdfgapp.pdf, or contact Francesca Rusk, frusk@aapa.org or 703/836-2272, ext. 3114.

Fourth Annual Paul Ambrose Health Promotion Student Leadership Symposium

The Paul Ambrose Health Promotion Student Leadership Symposium strives to engage graduate physician assistant, nursing, medical, and PharmD student leaders in building new visions, models, and experiences for health professions education. Following the Symposium, students will be expected to engage in health promotion/disease prevention education projects in their institutions or communities; enlist a mentor for guidance in the post-symposium project; and engage other students in the field of prevention. The mentor should be a faculty member from the department of preventive medicine or a related department at their institution. The Symposium is sponsored by a cooperative agreement between the Association of Teachers of Preventive Medicine and the Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, in collaboration with the American Medical Student Association and Community-Campus Partnerships for Health. Please see the announcement to learn details of this opportunity for students and faculty.

Endowment Honors Shenandoah University PA Program’s Medical Director and Funds Scholarships

The Shenandoah University in Winchester, Virginia, announced on February 11 that it had received $500,000 from the estate of Paul Mellon to establish the Paul Mellon Endowment. The perpetual fund will provide scholarships to students in the university’s PA program. The bequest honors Dr. James Carter Laidlaw, who was a personal physician to Paul Mellon, as well as a founding director of the university’s physician assistant program. Dr. Laidlaw, retired from Selma Medical Associates, is an associate professor and medical director for the physician assistant program at Shenandoah University. Please access the complete press release to read more about the gift to the PA program.

APAP Update - March 2005