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About PAEA: Membership

Membership
Membership Categories

The Physician Assistant Education Association (PAEA) is the only national organization in the United States representing physician assistant (PA) educational programs.

Membership

The Association's members are the 136 accredited physician assistant programs in the United States. These program members receive all benefits of membership, including the right to elect the Association's officers and to vote at annual business meetings. Historically, all accredited programs have elected to join the Association.

Functionally, the "members" of the Association are the faculty and staff of PAEA's member programs - the 1,500+ dedicated individuals who serve on the Association's boards and committees, and educate thousands of PA students annually.

PAEA also offers categories of affiliation for both non-accredited institutions (typically PA programs under development) and for individuals. Non-accredited programs are welcomed as institutional colleagues, a non-voting category, and receive many of the same benefits as full-member programs. Most colleague programs receive their accreditation soon after joining PAEA. At this point, they can be quickly converted to full voting members.

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Membership Categories

Program Member

A physician assistant program that has received at least provisional accreditation from the ARC-PA. Member programs have full voting privileges at PAEA business meetings. Programs and their faculty also receive the following publications and benefits:

• Monthly PAEA Networker
• Quarterly Journal of Physician Assistant Education
• Annual Report on PA Educational Programs in the U.S
• Access to the Online PA Programs Directory
• Access to the Members Only section of the PAEA Web site, which contains important reports and exclusive faculty development products
• Access to the annual Online Faculty Directory
• Member rates to PAEA conferences and workshops

Dues: $2975 annual dues (scheduled to change each year); $150 one-time application fee

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Colleagues of PAEA

Institutional Colleague

A PA program or other organization that has an interest in PA education, but is not eligible for program membership. Colleagues receive all benefits of full member programs, but are not eligible to hold office in PAEA and do not have voting rights at business meetings.

Dues: $1500 annual dues; $150 one-time application fee

Individual Colleague

An individual with an interest in PA education. Associates of PAEA are not voting members, but receive these benefits for very reasonable dues:

• Monthly PAEA Networker
• Quarterly Journal of Physician Assistant Education
• Member rates to PAEA conferences

Dues: $75 annually

 

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