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The Florida Academy of Physician Assistants is strongly
committed to the physician led "Physician/PA Team"
concept in health care to improve access to quality
health care for all of Florida's citizens.


FAPA would like your feedback by completing a Membership Survey so that we can better serve our members and continue to provide the needed education and support for Physician Assistants in Florida. Just click on this link to share your thoughts and ideas with FAPA.


**URGENT LEGISLATIVE ALERT FROM PRESIDENT ALONSO- 11/16/11!
ALL PAs SHOULD READ THIS ASAP!**


2012 Winter Symposium & Recertification Review

Buena Vista Palace- Lake Buena Vista (Orlando), FL: February 8-12, 2012
Click Here to Register Online!
Click Here for Exhibitor Prospectus

FAPA is proud to be partnering with the FAFP in our support of the Patient-Centered Medical Home Model of Health Care Delivery.

Check out the FAFP website (above) for more info on Family Practice jobs available. And don't forget the FAPA Job Board for the latest in PA employment opportunities in our state.


HB 573/ SB 1456
HB 573/ SB 1456, the PA Bill deleting the mandatory 3 month prescribing privilege wait, was signed into law by Governor Charlie Crist in 2010 and is now in effect! To read more about the importance and the necessity of this bill, see our
HB 573 Explanation Document


READ THIS IMPORTANT INFORMATION ON SB 1986, CURRENTLY BEING IMPLEMENTED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH
FAPA's Legislative Consultants, the Mixons, were in attendance for the Sept 15, 2009 MQA Meeting and provided a report. All licensed PAs and students need to read this important information:
MQA INTERPRETATION OF NEW LAW REGARDING LICENSURE (by Juhan Mixon).

IMPORTANT NOTICE FOR LICENSURE APPLICANTS AND RENEWALS! (by Dept of Health).


COSIGNATURE LAW UPDATE:
On June 16, 2009, Governor Crist signed SB 720 (HB 249) into law. The law is now in effect.
Hear more about the The Story of the 2009 Cosignature Legislation as well as the many congratulatory emails received by FAPA leadership.


NEWS BRIEFS !

Latest news updates posted:

  • Legislative Updates on the 2012 Session
  • December 2011 Message from the Florida Board of Medicine
  • FAPA Legislative Bill Links
  • FAPA Reopens Job Board to Nonmembers
  • Are YOU Getting FAPA Emails?

One of FAPA's own, PA Kaleena Francois, is organizing a movement to help the LiLa Foundation, created to enhance and sustain the health and educational needs of rural Haitian communities, develop its medical arm through the help of PA students and Barry University. Read more about her humanitarian project here and how you can help be clicking here or on the link above.



FAPA IS ON TWITTER! Get Important FAPA and other Florida health care related updates via your email or even your cell phone by following FAPA on Twitter at Twitter.com/FAPAOnline


FAPA 100 Club

The FAPA 100 is an elite group of PAs who have vowed to help FAPA make a major impact on the political scene in our state to benefit the healthcare arena and the goals of the Physician/PA Team in Florida... Please click here to read more and JOIN TODAY!


CME Course From FAPA

PA Practice in Florida: What Every PA &
Supervising Physician Needs To Know
CME Course Information

This Course can be completed for Category II hours.
Claim only those hours used to complete the course.


Family Physicians and Physician Assistants Join Forces in Joint Statement on Team Based Approach to Health Care
(featured February 2011 on ModernPhysician.com)


CLINICIAN 1 Article: "Local Medical Society Allows PAs As Full Members, Elects One To Board"
Quote from Physician Leader/ Past President of Marion-Polk Cty Medical Society: "We’re not a doctors’ society — we’re a medical society. Since PAs and physicians both practice medicine, we have common interests and should work together toward those ends."


PA Profession Ranks in New York Times Top Ten List
(April 2011 edition of New York Times)


PHYSICIAN ASSISTANT: #2 On Top 50 List of BEST JOBS IN AMERICA (2nd Year in a Row)
(from November 2010 edition of Money Magazine)


Why More Doctors Should Use NPs and PAs... And Why They Don't
(from July 9, 2009 edition of Medscape)


PAs and NPs: How They Boost Practice Earnings
(from June 11, 2007 edition of Modern Medicine)



Governor Crist Issues PA Week Proclamation for Florida- October 2008 (PDF)


 

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