Duke Physician Assistant Program News & Blogs

Second-year student Lily McWilliams, RDN, recently presented at the “Spotlight on Stomach Cancer Symposium” hosted by No Stomach for Cancer, an organization providing support to stomach cancer patients and their families.

When the class of 2022 interviewed for their place in the Duke Physician Program there was no inkling of the pandemic that would change the shape of the world for years to come.   

As part of the reunion weekend, the alumni hosted a "Summer Brunch Meet & Greet" for the class of 2022 just before they embark on their careers as physician assistants (PA).

Durham leaders recently dedicated a new affordable housing project to Joyce Nichols. Nichols, a 1970 graduate of the Duke Physician Assistant Program, was the first Black female Physician Assistant (PA)

A group of Duke Physician Assistant (PA) Program students and faculty attended The Poor People's and Low-Wage Workers' Assembly and Moral March in Washington, DC. with the North Carolina chapter of White Coats for Social and Health Justice.

Duke Physician Assistant (PA) Program students Emily Campbell, Sami Moyer, Austin Graydon and Kay Burrows recently completed the 2022 Future Clinician Leaders College (FCLC) offered by the North Carolina Medical Society (NCMS).  

The Duke Physician Assistant (PA) Program was well represented at the American Academy of Physician Associates’ (AAPA) 2022 conference, the first in-person conference since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic.

(For more information about AAPA's name change, click here)

Last month students and faculty from the Duke Physician Assistant Program traveled to two local high schools as part of the Physician Assistant Education Association’s (PAEA) Project Access initiative.  

Project Access is a national program designed to “make aware and encourage students from underrepresented in medicine groups to consider the PA profession as a health career.”