The Interservice Physician Assistant Program

Harrison, Randolph Scott; Adamson, Katherine Justen; Kroger, Shan Michael

doi:10.1097/01.jaa.0000473366.15469.0b

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“…The Interservice Physician Assistant Program (IPAP) is the largest physician assistant education program in the world, training up to 169 matriculants, divided into 3 cohorts per year. 1 The program is divided into 2 phases. The didactic phase occurs at Joint Base San Antonio, Texas, over a period of 16 months or 4 semesters, requiring 101 credit hours during which students take more than 100 locally written examinations.…”

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Prerequisite Delivery Method and Academic Outcomes in a Physician Assistant Education Program

Chalupa,

Nevels,

Kucia

et al. 2023

J Physician Assist Educ

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Purpose The Interservice Physician Assistant Program (IPAP) educates up to 169 matriculants per year. Each service branch sets the admission criteria, including all prerequisites, for their applicants. We hypothesized that prerequisites obtained online/virtual are less rigorous than coursework completed in-person. The purpose of this investigation was to evaluate whether online/virtual prerequisite courses were associated with academic deceleration or attrition at any point. Methods Student self-reported data were retrospectively analyzed to evaluate program scores of students who took prerequisites online/virtual or in-person. Results There were no statistically significant differences in foundational course performance between online/virtual and in-person coursework. In addition, students who took anatomy online performed better than students who completed the coursework in-person (140.6 ± 15.6 vs. 145.6 ± 14.7, P = .05). Conclusions This analysis indicates that using the prerequisite source to predict academic difficulty may not be possible in IPAP students. Faculty will need to continue to search for other predictors of academic difficulty.

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confidence: 99%

Prerequisite Delivery Method and Academic Outcomes in a Physician Assistant Education Program

Chalupa,

Nevels,

Kucia

et al. 2023

J Physician Assist Educ

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“…Graduating an average of 169 graduates per year, the Interservice Physician Assistant Program (IPAP) is the largest physician assistant training program in the world 1 . The program consists of a 16-month didactic phase and a 13-month clinical phase.…”

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Review of an Initial Physician Assistant Training Program Orthopaedics Course Curriculum Using Kern's 6-Step Process

Chalupa¹,

Beahm²,

Donias³

et al. 2022

JBJS Journal of Orthopaedics for Physician Assistants

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Graduating an average of 169 graduates per year, the Interservice Physician Assistant Program (IPAP) is the largest physician assistant training program in the world. The IPAP orthopedics course is a 4-credit hour course that started as approximately 60 hours of lecture, 9 hours of laboratory practice to prepare for an Objective Structured Clinical Examination, and 4 hours of splinting laboratory. After several cohorts performed poorly on the second block exam and student critiques voiced the need for course revision, the curriculum committee formed a sub-committee to review the course content and structure. The primary course instructor was familiar with Kern's 6-step approach to curriculum development and proposed using the Kern’s approach for the curriculum review and revision. This article aims to demonstrate the use of Kern's 6-step approach for review and revision of an introductory orthopedic course curriculum. This article shows how an IPAP curriculum sub-committee executed the 6 steps of the Kern’s process: (1) problem identification and general needs assessment, (2) targeted needs assessment, (3) development of goals and objectives, (4) development of educational strategies, (5) implementation, and (6) evaluation and feedback. To our knowledge, this is the first example of a physician assistant program using Kern's 6-step process to revise a curriculum. Thus far, the revisions show a positive change, indicating that other physician assistant programs could conduct similar reviews using the Kern’s 6-step approach.

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A history of US Army PAs

Chalupa

Marble

2017

Jaapa

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The US military has a long tradition of using physician assistants (PAs). The Army began using PAs in 1971 in an effort to supplement the physicians and surgeons in the medical corps. As their numbers grew, PAs gradually replaced general medical officers assigned to battalions. Later, specialty positions developed in aviation medicine, orthopedics, and emergency medicine. The need for a PA serving as an adviser in the major commands slowly developed at all levels of leadership. In 2015, the Army removed limitations on female PAs assigned to combat units. PAs lead in tactical and clinical settings, filling command roles, senior clinical positions, and administrative leadership roles.

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The Interservice Physician Assistant Program

Cited by 6 publications

References 5 publications

Prerequisite Delivery Method and Academic Outcomes in a Physician Assistant Education Program

Prerequisite Delivery Method and Academic Outcomes in a Physician Assistant Education Program

Review of an Initial Physician Assistant Training Program Orthopaedics Course Curriculum Using Kern's 6-Step Process

A history of US Army PAs

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