PAs can build a stronger profession by mentoring their future colleagues, says the author. Give back by volunteering to precept.

JAAPA's recently retired editor in chief describes some of the Journal's accomplishments during her tenure and explores some of the challenges facing JAAPA in the years ahead.

JAAPA's founding editor looks back at launching the Journal in 1988 and suggests that perhaps not so much has changed in the past 25 years as we may think.

Clinicians must be well-informed about potential safety problems in order to assess a drug's benefit-to-harm balance and to avoid causing harm to their patients.

PAs are ideally situated to intervene in situations of parental loss. We can do much to help these children, such as providing practical strategies that help create environments that support healing and normal development.

Robert Wooten believes that PAs can provide the leadership needed to solve our health care challenges—leadership that he says begins the moment you volunteer and get involved.

As a PA, you know how to make a team successful, and you have a deep understanding of why teams sometimes fail.

JAAPA's new editor in chief offers his vision for the Journal and the profession.

Tens of thousands of American adults needlessly suffer and die from pneumococcal disease every year. The time has come for PAs to advocate for better vaccination coverage for this dangerous disease.

The PEDC provides an overview of the impending changes in continuing medical education and explains how PAs can benefit from them.

Gaps in our research into the characteristics of the PA profession diminish our effectiveness as advocates for the profession in the legislative and regulatory arenas.

The AAPA urges physician assistants to help build the PA profession's advocacy efforts and influence on Capitol Hill to a higher level.

PAs may practice longer than expected and need to bridge their retirement in unprecedented ways. Who, what, and why remain challenging questions.

The PA profession is undeniably critical to the future of medicine, and we all have a responsibility to represent PAs the best we can.

More than 90% of women survive when ovarian cancer is caught early. The key is awareness, for both the patient and the PA.

All patients should be offered a trained chaperone for intimate exams in advance of the consultation. The gender of either patient or provider should not influence the discussion.