Physician Assistant Studies

“There’s a lot of uncertainty and anxiety about being a health care student. There is very low tolerance for mistakes, there’s high expectations, and it felt like someone really stepped up and made a vote of confidence in me that I received that scholarship. I actually thought about that quite a…

Lisa Mustone Alexander, professor of physician assistant studies, and Howard Straker, assistant professor of physician assistant studies and of prevention and community health, were elected to leadership positions of the Physician Assistant Education Association. Both Alexander and…

Every October, the nation celebrates Physician Assistants (PA) Week. To mark the annual celebration, the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences (SMHS) hosts an awards reception to honor individuals for their dedication to the profession.

First-year physician assistant (PA) students donned their white coats for the first time, with help from second-year PA students, at the PA Short White Coat and Convocation Ceremony, held Friday, June 26.

Erika Bramlette, PA, MBA, assistant professor of physician assistant studies at SMHS, talks her PA journey.

Physician assistants from the Class of 2016 gathered for a formal ceremony to recognize their peers and to receive their long white coats on May 13.

Physician assistant students and an alumna from the Physician Assistant (PA) Program at the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences (SMHS) talked to two dozen students at T.C. Williams High School in Alexandria, Virginia about career pathways toward becoming a PA.

SMHS physician assistant (PA) students go to Capitol Hill to garner support for PA legislation during PA Hill Day.

The PA program presented awards to two GW alumni and a scholarship to Emily Arcand, PA ’16.

The Physician Assistant Class of 2017 dons their short white coats for the first time at a ceremony on June 26.