News & Events
Announcements, updates, posts, invitations, and stories linked to the daily aspects of MEDEX Northwest, its five campuses, its place in the UW Medicine’s Department of Family Medicine, and its leading role in the field of PA education.
New Book from the PA History Society
The Physician Assistant: An Illustrated History was recently published by the PA History Society. Ruth Ballweg, our own MEDEX Northwest Section Chief, is one of the four authors of this book. This is a timeline handbook, punctuated with images and brief biographies of the major contributors and events central to [...]
Honoring Dr. David Acosta
David Acosta, MD (left), former Chief Diversity Officer at the University of Washington School of Medicine, received an “Honorary PA” certificate for his many years of dedicated support of the PA profession and the MEDEX program in particular. Terry Scott, Program Director for MEDEX Northwest, presented him with the certificate [...]
2013 Graduations at MEDEX
MEDEX Northwest is pleased to announce 108 new Physician Assistant graduates across four sites in 2013. The Alaska MEDEX Class 3 graduation was held on Thursday, August 15 with an on-screen graduation speech by Senator Mark Begich, who also delivered the graduation speech for Alaska Class 1. Both Seattle Class [...]
Interprofessional Simulation
On a Saturday in April MEDEX PA students from the Spokane campus participated in a interprofessional simulation exercise on the WSU campus. Following emergency scenarios the MEDEX students went should-to-shoulder with WSU nursing, pharmacy, nutrition and exercise physiology students. The purpose of this exercise was to group the students into [...]
A Message From Ruth Ballweg
Greetings—This is an informal announcement to let you know about some upcoming changes in my career/life. After 29 years as the leader of the MEDEX Program, I’ve decided to “step down” as of May 1, 2014. As you can imagine, this is a huge, “difficult”, but also “positive” decision...
MEDEX 2014 WAPA Reception
MEDEX 2014 Scholarship Awards Reception on April 26 - Part of the WAPA Spring Conference The annual MEDEX/WAPA Alumni Awards and Student Scholarship reception will be held on Saturday April 26, 2014 from 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm in rooms Evergreen 1 & 2 at the SeaTac Doubletree Inn. The reception [...]
MEDEX Students Honored
First-year MEDEX Northwest physician assistant trainees Christopher Varady, Dustin Golding, Luke Lenehan and Ryan Frost were awarded certificates of recognition Jan 8, 2013 at the Yakima City Council meeting for their selfless courage. While on a walk last October, they noticed smoke coming from a ground-level unit in their apartment [...]
IMPACT ’13
WAPA/MEDEX Reception at the Washington DC AAPA Annual Conference Join us on Sunday, May 26th at Zaytinya from 5:30 pm-7:30 pm 701 9th St NW Washington, DC 20001 Tel: (202) 638-0800 Mark your calendar and join us May 26, 2013 in our nation’s capitol at the AAPA annual meeting. We [...]
In Memoriam
It is with a sad and heavy heart that we inform you that MEDEX has lost a wonderful individual. Second-year student Elizabeth (Liza) Benson passed away January 27, 2013. An avid skier, she was caught in an avalanche, and hit a tree in Jackson Wyoming. Liza had returned to the [...]
The Interactive Classroom
“The Interactive Classroom” details the thought, care, and planning that goes into designing the didactic year classroom experience for MEDEX students. Four faculty discuss the move from a purely lecture-based curriculum to physician assistant instruction that engages on multiple levels— kinetically, experientially, and as a team. Members of Seattle Class [...]