1. Welcome to Pre PA Club

2. What does our club do? Help prepare students for PA school
Spread the word about the profession
Community outreach
sammy

3. Your Executive Team! Faculty Advisor: Karen Graham - kgraham@uwlax.edu
President: Samantha Lieven –
Vice President: Kelli Heeringa -
Secretary: Taryn Ashley –
Treasurer: Megan Johnson-
Public Relations: Emily Murphy-
Volunteer Coordinator: Brandon Benson and Josh Loew-
All of us

4. Meetings 2015-2016 September 16th September 30th October 14th
November 11th
December 9th
February 3rd
February 17th
March 2nd
March 30th
April 13th
April 27th
sammy

5. House Keeping Dues: $15 for the year; $10 for the semester
3 unexcused absences are allowed
Must volunteer at least 2 times with the club
Sammy and taryn

6. Volunteering
Bethany St Joseph Nursing Home (off Wednesdays of meetings)
Children’s Miracle Network Fundraisers and Nic-U tours
Catch a Cure Fundraisers
Gundersen Lutheran
Dance-a-thon
Radio-thon
Josh and brandon and sammy

7. What is a PA?
A healthcare professional educated/trained to do many of the tasks traditionally performed by physicians
Licensed to practice medicine with supervision of a licensed physician
Concerned with preventing, maintaining, and treating human illness and injury by providing a broad range of health care services
sammy

8. What it takes!
PAs are educated in the medical model designed to complement physician training
Must take a national certification examination developed by the National Commission on Certification of PAs
Must log 100 hours of continuing medical education every 2 years
Recertification every ten years
Graduation from an accredited physician assistant program(usually 2 year program)
Passage of the national certifying exam are required for state licensure
kelli

9. Brief History
Dr. Eugene Stead of the Duke University Medical Center in North Carolina put together the first class of PAs in 1965
Selected Navy corpsmen who received considerable medical training during military service
October 6, 1967, Duke University PA program graduated the first PA students
Today there are over 79,000 graduates of PA programs.
emily

10. Work Settings
taryn

11. Specialties
Meghan

12. Scope of Practice
PAs obtain clinical privileges through a system similar to the one used for physicians.
Physicians may delegate to PAs those medical duties that are within the physician’s scope of practice and the PA’s training and experience
In all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and Guam authorize PAs to prescribe
Brandon and josh

13. Catch-a-Cure News! Our yearly fundraiser
Dodgeball Tournament this year !!!!
Monthly fundraisers year round!
Selling apparel for lung cancer awareness
sammy

14. National PA Week October 5th through 10th
Tables in Whitney and Cartwright: Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday
Collaborating with PA students
Help us Celebrate!
sammy

15. Like us on Facebook!!!

16. Cody Colson –ROTC PA program
Guest Speaker
Cody Colson –ROTC PA program

17. Next Meeting September 30th: Karla Korish Guest Speaker
PA Students Guest talk