So Inside PA Training has been around for a while now, and we’ve given you scores of free articles, polls, application resources, career advice, and much more. What we’ve never done is ask you for anything, until now. Have you become a part of Inside PA Training’s new Becoming a Physician Assistant Forum? If you [...]
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March 17 2011
Inside PA Training Forum
We’re excited to announce the roll-out of our new feature: the Inside PA Training Forum The IPAT Forum is: Free User/reader-generated Dedicated exclusively to those who are Exploring the field of physician assistant medicine Applying to physician assistant school, or Curious about the physician assistant training process. Best of all: NO ADVERTISING (Yay!) Gabe and [...]
December 26 2010
Happy Holidays
We’re taking this time to be with our families and get ready for our toughest quarter, winter quarter of year 1, when the combined demands of the program really pile up: Cardiology Nephrology (diseases of the kidney) Gastroenterology (diseases of the digestive system). Also in January, we begin our preceptorships. Preceptorships are basically internships in primary care clinics. [...]
November 5 2010
Former PA Training Instructor Elected to U.S. House of Representatives
As strident as midterm election politics were this year, and whatever your political stripe, you’ll probably be pleased to hear that the US House of Representatives will have its first PA in office when the 122nd Congress convenes this January. With PA training and advocacy experience, and support from the American Association of Physician Assistants [...]
September 24 2010
Antibiotics That Don't Cause Resistance
I thought I’d share a great resource today. It’s an awesome lecture by a researcher named Bonnie Bassler. She is a molecular biologist at Princeton University. Bassler discovered taht bacteria can communicate with each other as a group, something researchers now call quorum sensing. It is a simple concept, but it carries huge implications for [...]


