News & Events

PA Week 2023 at MEDEX Northwest

The idea behind National PA Week, which is held every year from Oct. 6 – 12, is to recognize the PA profession and its contributions to the team sport that is U.S. healthcare. By all accounts, this year’s 2023 edition held by the five campuses of MEDEX Northwest was an [...]

MEDEX Kona Class 4 Student Angel Adams Accepted Into Social Mission Alliance Health Justice Council and Health Justice Student Assembly

  MEDEX is pleased to share the news that Angel Adams, a student in MEDEX Kona Class 4 (class of 2025) has been accepted into the Social Mission Alliance (SMA) Health Justice Council (HJC) and Health Justice Student Assembly (HJSA) for the 2023-2024 academic year. From SMA: “The HJC is [...]

Machine Learning and Student Performance: Recent Research by Lisa Walker, MPAS, PA-C (MEDEX Northwest Faculty)

MEDEX Northwest is pleased to recognize the recent publication of a research article co-authored by MEDEX faculty member Lisa Walker, MPAS, PA-C. The Applications of Adaptive Minimum Match k-Nearest Neighbors to Identify At-Risk Students in Health Professions Education Kumar, Anshul; DiJohnson, Taylor; Edwards, Roger A.; Walker, LisaThe Journal of Physician [...]

Privilege, Responsibility and Wearing the White Coat

Come fall on the MEDEX Northwest calendar, students transition from their didactic year into their clinical year. It’s the time when they are stepping away from the MEDEX classroom and its dense didactic curriculum into the hospitals, clinics and healthcare facilities all around them for their four-month primary care preceptorship [...]

MEDEX Kona Class 3 Student Keli Jackson Recipient of PAEA 2023-24 Student Health Policy Fellowship

You may have heard the news from the PA Education Association (PAEA), but it bears repeating because this news is extra special this year. We are very happy to announce that, for a third  consecutive year, a MEDEX student—Keli Jackson of Kona Class 3—has been selected for the PAEA 2023-24 [...]

The Maui Fires: Portrait of a Community Response

Until news of the catastrophic wildfires raging in Maui on the evening of Tuesday, August 8 began to make its way across the state and nation, things at the MEDEX Kona campus were pretty much buzzing along as planned. Members of Kona Class 4 (KC4), the newest cohort of MEDEX [...]

2023 MEDEX Northwest Student Scholarships

We are happy to announce the recipients of the 2023 MEDEX Student Scholarships. There are eight scholarship categories, each named after an individual of particular signficance to the MEDEX Northwest PA program. Decisions are based primarily on the evaluation by MEDEX Northwest leadership of short essays submitted by the students [...]

Remembering MEDEX Class 1 Graduate John Betz, PA-C (January 25, 1942 – April 3, 2023)

Preparing Future Primary Care Providers to Take on the Opioid Crisis

MEDEX Northwest Students Ready for Full Day of Buprenorphine Training Students from across all five of MEDEX Northwest’s campuses will participate in a full-day Buprenorphine training in the treatment of opioid use disorder (OUD) in preparation for their primary care clinical rotations: MEDEX Kona (April 14), MEDEX Anchorage (April 21), [...]

Remembering Phoumy Bounkeua, PA-C

The MEDEX Northwest family mourns the recent passing of Phoumy Bounkeua, PA-C. He was so generous, those who knew him are saying. A real class act. A genuinely wonderful guy. At the time of his admission to MEDEX Seattle Class 23 (1991), Phoumy had the distinction of being the youngest [...]