{"id":37391,"date":"2016-08-26T15:00:45","date_gmt":"2016-08-26T19:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm\/?p=37391"},"modified":"2016-09-01T13:08:43","modified_gmt":"2016-09-01T17:08:43","slug":"inaugural-pa-program-class-graduates-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/2016\/08\/26\/inaugural-pa-program-class-graduates-23\/","title":{"rendered":"Inaugural PA Program Class Graduates 23"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"550\" height=\"310\" src=\"\/\/www.bu.edu\/buniverse\/interface\/embed\/embed.html?v=1QkXDG0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nThe inaugural class of the Physician Assistant Program graduated on Friday, Aug. 26.\u00a0 Twenty-three students, selected from 1,000 program applicants, were conferred the Master of Science degree by Associate Provost for the Division of Graduate Medical Sciences Linda Hyman, PhD.<\/p>\n<p>Their journey began 28 months ago with a year-long intensive didactic phase that included a full dissection lab in anatomy; physiology and molecular sciences; introduction to research;\u00a0 the second year medical school course that teaches pathophysiology and pharmacology by body system called DRx; preventive medicine and three clinical skills courses. They participated in\u00a0 DRx small group clinical reasoning sessions, took the same examinations and were graded using the same standards as the second year medical students.\u00a0 The clinical phase of the program included 14 one-month clinical rotations and a two-month thesis project.<\/p>\n<p>Founding Director Mary Warner, MMSc, PA-C, welcomed the students, faculty, invited speakers, family and friends.\u00a0 Dawn Morton-Rias, EdD, PA-C, was the commencement speaker.\u00a0 Morton-Rias is the president and CEO of the National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants and is the first PA to serve in that capacity in the organization\u2019s 38-year history.\u00a0 She reminded students that they are the first class at Boston University and as such they set the pace, they chart the course \u2026 they have the opportunity to positively impact healthcare in Boston and beyond.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/camed\/files\/2016\/08\/COM-PA-Grad-Cere-2016-231-2-e1472237127580.jpg\" alt=\"COM PA Grad Cere-2016-231-2\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-37396\" height=\"493\" width=\"650\" \/><\/p>\n<p>PA Students nominated the following for awards: Didactic Instructor of the Year: Robert Lowe, MD, Course Director of the DRx course and GI module; Clinical Site of the Year: Brockton VA CLC, Drs. Juman Hijab and Marcus Ruopp and Sandra Vibrun-Bruno,PA-C;\u00a0 Carl M. Toney Student Society Award: Mary Warner, MMSc, PA-C Founding Director of the program.<\/p>\n<p>Student awards included: Outstanding Academic Achievement, Flora Traub; Outstanding Clinical Achievement, Sarah Grzybinski; and Humanitarian Award, Aline Souza for her work with the Albert Schweitzer Fellowship at Casa Esperanza.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em>Carl Toney, PA, led the students in reading the PA Oath and closed with, \u201cWelcome to the profession! I am so proud of you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em>Forty-three percent of the graduates have accepted clinical positions as physician assistants.\u00a0 Sixty percent of those will be employed at Brigham and Women\u2019s Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital in Emergency Medicine, Hospitalist Medicine, Primary Care, Intensive Care (MICU), Neurosurgery, Orthopaedic Surgery and General Surgery. At this time\u00a0 NCCPA board scores are pending.<\/p>\n<p>See more in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/143251580@N04\/sets\/72157673143115556\">Flickr<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/BUMedicine\/photos\/?tab=album&amp;album_id=1402362703126797\">Facebook albums<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to the profession! Watch the commencement video!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":903,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124,91,123],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37391"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/903"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37391"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37657,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37391\/revisions\/37657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}