Pennsylvania Dermatology Physician Assistant Society

09/02/2021

Join us for Keystone 2021

http://www.padermpa.org/keystone-derm-2021.html

07/27/2021

Senate Bills 397 & 398 to modernize our practice Acts, have unanimously passed the Senate thanks to everyone’s help. The legislation gives the physician/PA team and institutions more flexibility in delivering care to our patients. The bills will...

06/25/2021

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Please take 60 seconds to click this link and send a letter stating your support for modernizing PA legislation in Pennsylvania.

The PSPA has introduced Senate Bills 397 & 398 to modernize our practice Acts, giving the physician/PA team and institutions more flexibility in delivering care to our patients. The Prime sponsor for our legislation Senator Joseph Pittman...

10/06/2020

Visit www.PaDermPa.org to sign up for Keystone Dermatology conference and receive a special PA week discount.

10/05/2020

Happy PA Week!

09/08/2020

Early Bird Registration for the 2020 Virtual Keystone Dermatology CME Conference ends on September 8th!

It's time for you to grab your ticket!

REGISTER HERE

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04/11/2020

https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/grant-pas-full-practice-authority-function-licensed-independent-practitioners-federal-jurisdictions

We call on President Trump and his administration to permanently grant Full Practice Authority to all Federal service PAs so they may function as Licensed Independent Practitioners in all Federal jurisdictions. The PA profession was born over 50 years ago under similar circumstances to those today -...

03/02/2020

Hey, Pittsburgh

The PDPAs own Hannah Rodriguez will be visiting the steel city on Wednesday March 20, 2020.
Join Galderma for dinner at Eleven.
1150 Smallman street
Start time: 6:00pm
Discussion: Aklief

Rsvp to your reps Bob or Tom.

01/09/2020

Hey, Philadelphia.
Be sure to save the dates for upcoming journal club meetings.

January - Thursday 1/16, Center City, 7pm
March - Thursday 3/12, KOP, 7pm
May - Tuesday 5/5, Conshohocken, 6pm - Yes there will be tacos!!
July - Tuesday 7/21, KOP, 6:30pm - BBQ/Pool Party at Karen's House!!
425 Clothier Springs Rd Phoenixville
Sept - Thursday 9/17, KOP, 7pm
Nov - Thursday 11/12, Center City, 6pm

12/17/2019

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Check out this exciting news

12/01/2019

Sometimes the Doctor is NOT in and you might be seeing a Physician Assistant. Larry Collins, MPAS, PA-C, ATC, DFAAPA from the USF Morsani College of Medicine gives us the details on who a PA is and…

10/31/2019

Representative Curt Sonney is introducing legislation that would help Physician Assistants work and practice with increased efficiency in Pennsylvania. In his memorandum, he stated that Physician Assistants are a critical piece of the healthcare team. Their education and training is in the medical model and provides both physicians and patients with an excellent resource for healthcare.

In 2013, as prime sponsor of Act 100 and 101, Representative Sonney tried to alleviate many of the problems with the Medical Boards. He stated that we are still experiencing horrible backlogs with the written agreements. In order to permanently fix this critical problem that is forcing our best students out of state, I believe that it is most practical to join with 36 other states who have agreements filed and create an immediate path for qualified licensed Physician Assistants to practice.

Pennsylvania is one of the premier states for Physician Assistant education, but lags behind legislatively for practicing Pennsylvania Physician Assistants. With this modernization, Pennsylvania will encourage a diverse range of medical professionals across the healthcare delivery system. This legislation will allow for modernization for physician assistants to practice while maintaining their role under supervising physicians.

The legislation will do the following:

1. Place a Physician Assistant on the Medical Board and Osteopathic Board with a permanent seat
2. Remove the requirement of a physician countersignature on 100% of patient files
3. Allow a written agreement to be "filed" instead of "approved" by the Medical and Osteopathic Boards. This will allow Physician Assistants to immediately begin working instead of waiting 120 days or longer for the Medical Boards
4. Outline what supervision means, to ensure laws and regulations do not hinder the Physician, Physician Assistant, Patient relationship.
To accomplish the intent of the legislation we will need to amend both the Medical Practice Act and the Osteopathic Medical Practice Act. Therefore, we will be introducing two corresponding pieces of legislation.

Please write to your representative asking them to co-sponsor this legislation and help to modernize and advance the practice of Physician Assistants.

Click the link below to log in and send your message:
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Representative Curt Sonney is introducing legislation that would help Physician Assistants work and practice with increased efficiency in Pennsylvania. In his memorandum, he stated that Physician Assistants are a critical piece of the healthcare...

10/10/2019

10/08/2019

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10/05/2019

07/23/2019

Congratulations

Melissa Hutzler
SDPA Membership Committee

Francesca Wolfe
SDPA CME Committee

Jamie Restivo
SDPA CME Committee

We’re so proud of these PDPA members serving as SDPA leaders.

07/16/2019

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Check out highlights from the 2019 SDPA summer conference.

Highlights from the SDPA Summer Conference in Washington, DC!