Commentary Articles

From "old boys" to "all girls": Changing PA demographics

April 03, 2012

Women PAs must recognize and act on their aptitude for leadership to help ensure the continued growth of the PA profession.
 

Great expectations—or how to 
focus on prevention for all

March 06, 2012

Collaborating with public health departments and community programs is key to achieving behavioral change in our patients, even for the underserved.
 

Precepting PA students: How 
you can touch the future

February 03, 2012

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

A quarter-century of JAAPA: 
A long, remarkable journey

January 06, 2012

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.
 

25 years of JAAPA: Honoring the past, awaiting the future

January 04, 2012

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.
 

Understanding drug safety and how to maximize it for patients

November 01, 2011

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 and the future of health care in the United States

October 05, 2011

The author urges PAs to join the Campaign for Action to help build a health care system where all Americans have access to high-quality, patient-centered care.
 

How clinicians think: The 
evolution of clinical reasoning

May 05, 2011

Watching students develop their clinical reasoning skills has heightened the author's awareness of how she applies clinical reasoning with patients in her own practice—and has reminded her to not take this critical skill for granted.
 

Keeping up with LGBT health: Why it matters to your patients

March 03, 2011

"My teachable moments," says the author, "didn't happen in PA school or even as a practicing PA but rather while my partner or I have been sitting in a paper gown on an exam table."
 

Hospice and palliative care: 
The time to get involved is now

January 07, 2011

How ironic, says the author, that the physician assistant profession, so devoted to the team approach to care, is denied the ability to be part of the hospice team.
 
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