{"id":2978,"date":"2013-03-12T22:41:52","date_gmt":"2013-03-12T22:41:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/medex\/?page_id=2978"},"modified":"2025-08-01T21:05:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T21:05:08","slug":"pa-program","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/medex\/pa-program\/","title":{"rendered":"PA Program"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n  <div class=\"banner has-hover has-parallax\" id=\"banner-322821578\">\n          <div class=\"banner-inner fill\">\n        <div class=\"banner-bg fill\" data-parallax=\"-2\" data-parallax-container=\".banner\" data-parallax-background>\n            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1170\" height=\"723\" src=\"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/medex\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2023\/10\/seattle-4.jpeg\" class=\"bg attachment-original size-original\" alt=\"\" \/>                                    \n                    <\/div>\n\t\t\n        <div class=\"banner-layers container\">\n            <div class=\"fill banner-link\"><\/div>            \n\n\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n\n            \n<style>\n#banner-322821578 {\n  padding-top: 400px;\n}\n<\/style>\n  <\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"row\"  id=\"row-543677637\">\n\n\n\t<div id=\"col-1183350568\" class=\"col medium-3 small-12 large-3\"  >\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"col-inner\"  >\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\n<p><strong><ul class=\"sub-page-menu\" aria-label=\"Secondary nav menu\" role=\"navigation\" style=\"list-style-type:none\"><li class=\"page_item page-item-923 page_item_has_children\"><a href=\"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/medex\/pa-program\/what-is-a-pa\/\">What is a PA?<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"page_item page-item-321 page_item_has_children\"><a href=\"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/medex\/pa-program\/campus-locations\/\">Campus Locations<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"page_item page-item-568 page_item_has_children\"><a href=\"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/medex\/pa-program\/curriculum\/\">Curriculum<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"page_item page-item-2326 page_item_has_children\"><a href=\"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/medex\/pa-program\/photo-and-video\/\">Photo and Video<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"page_item page-item-6767\"><a href=\"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/medex\/pa-program\/program-goals-2\/\">Program Goals<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"page_item page-item-325 page_item_has_children\"><a href=\"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/medex\/pa-program\/accreditation\/\">PA Program Accreditation and Outcomes<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"page_item page-item-352 page_item_has_children\"><a href=\"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/medex\/pa-program\/degrees-offered\/\">Degrees Offered<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"page_item page-item-361 page_item_has_children\"><a href=\"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/medex\/pa-program\/program-cost\/\">Program Cost<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n\n\t<div id=\"col-365379097\" class=\"col medium-9 small-12 large-9\"  >\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"col-inner\"  >\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\n<p>MEDEX Northwest is a part of the University of Washington School of Medicine, which serves the states of Washington, Wyoming, Alaska, Montana and Idaho (the WWAMI medical education region). MEDEX has also opened a campus in Hawaii, and has an agreement with the state of Nevada. As one of the nation\u2019s first PA<strong>*<\/strong> programs, MEDEX has a 55-plus-year history of recruiting, educating, and deploying second-career students with an emphasis on primary care. Since the first federal demonstration grant for MEDEX Primary Care Training in 1968, the goal of the program has consistently been to expand access to high-quality healthcare by educating second-career midlevel clinicians to join the primary care workforce.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>*<\/strong><em>TITLE CHANGE: <\/em><i>As many people may be aware, the PA profession has begun a title change from \u201cphysician assistant\u201d to \u201cphysician associate.\u201d It comes as no surprise that this is an extremely complex undertaking which will take many years to fully implement across the profession. As such, MEDEX is transitioning to using the term \u201cPA\u201d only (not \u201cphysician associate\u201d) for the time being, which applies to all staff, faculty, and students. We are working to adjust our documentation, logos, website, messaging, etc. to phase out \u201cphysician assistant\u201d in favor of \u201cPA.\u201d This will take time. For more information, please refer to <a title=\"https:\/\/www.aapa.org\/title-change\/\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aapa.org\/title-change\/\">https:\/\/www.aapa.org\/title-change\/<\/a> (the FAQs are particularly helpful), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nccpa.net\/resources\/board-certification-and-title-change\/\">https:\/\/www.nccpa.net\/resources\/board-certification-and-title-change\/<\/a> (also see helpful FAQ link), and <a href=\"https:\/\/paeaonline.org\/our-work\/current-issues\/pa-title-change-frequently-asked-questions\">https:\/\/paeaonline.org\/our-work\/current-issues\/pa-title-change-frequently-asked-questions<\/a>. <strong>DO NOT use &#8220;physician associate&#8221; as a title unless it has been confirmed to be prescribed by your state&#8217;s licensure laws.<\/strong><\/i><\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":221,"featured_media":8973,"parent":0,"menu_order":6,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-full-width-title-breadcrumbs.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2978","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/medex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/medex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/medex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/medex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/221"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/medex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2978"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/medex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27660,"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/medex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2978\/revisions\/27660"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/medex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/medex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}