MEDEX Spokane Site Moves to Gonzaga with UW Medicine

After twenty years in Spokane, the MEDEX Spokane site has relocated to Gonzaga University as [...]

Influential PA Kaye Kvam Remembered

Over a career span of 36 years, Kaye Kvam occupied multiple roles as a physician [...]

New MEDEX Graduates Celebrate End of Studies

Each year MEDEX Northwest educates over 100 physician assistants across four sites, and 2016 added [...]

Unique Challenges in Urgent Care Medicine

Patients who present to urgent care are likely unknown to the medical staff, and often [...]

Now It’s My Job to Figure Out the Problem

Initially a firefighter for the US Forest Service, Ryan Jones then worked as a Paramedic [...]

The Mission Statement I Was Looking For

Tracey Hopper’s path to becoming a physician assistant was driven by the need to provide [...]

A Year Of Confidence Breaking, Then Making

After a year of classroom study, Sarah Kopke discovers how little she actually knows when [...]

MEDEX Welcomes Incoming 2016 PA Students

Since the program’s founding by Dr. Richard Smith in 1967, MEDEX Northwest students have been [...]

Like Painting A Fence, You Can’t Help But Get A Little Bit On You

Tucker Larsen came to MEDEX Spokane Class 18 from a social worker background, specifically in [...]

It Makes You Really, Truly Love Medicine

With a combined experience of 13 years as a US Navy corpsman, Al Noriega developed [...]