Duke Physician Assistant Program News & Blogs

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)

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)

For 20 years, students from the Duke Physician Assistant Program have visited Burton Elementary School in Durham for an annual health education presentation.

Embrace Your Journey Physician Assistant (PA) school is a journey filled with countless moments of joy, expansion of knowledge, perseverance, growth, exhaustion, reflection, and the occasional unexpected trial. It will also push you to heights you never thought possible.

I was sitting at my desk at Duke University Hospital when I received probably the most awaited email of my life – Offer of Admission, Duke Physician Assistant (PA) Program. The outpatient abdominal transplant team surrounded me, the people who had inspired me to learn, grow, and take this giant leap.  

On April 8, the Physician Assistant Education Association (PAEA) and the Central Application Service for Physician Assistants (CASPA) announced they will be expanding their popular fee waiver program to cover more of the fees associated with applying to PA school.

Duke Physician Assistant Program alumn Kate Pocock ('13) spent the first part of the pandemic working in Arizona on the Fort Apache Indian Reservation. The multidisciplinary team worked with Indian Health Services (IHS) to take an in-person approach to contact tracing.

Each fall, the Duke Physician Assistant (PA) Stead Society organizes a Giving and Gratitude Campaign to raise money for local organizations and charities whose missions align with that of the PA program.  

“Inclusion is within everyone’s ability level.”