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The official Twitter account for the American Academy of PAs, the national professional society for physician associates (PAs). #PAsGoBeyond #AAPA26
Alexandria, VA
Joined November 2008
The 2025 @usnews Best Jobs rankings confirm the PA profession is a top job in the nation! 🏆🎉 PA holds steady as the #2 job in #healthcare, has climbed to #3 in Best Jobs Overall and has risen to #3 in Best Jobs That Pay $100k or More. 👏 https://t.co/5goTwpxjDJ
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PAs, we're still reflecting on the best #PAweek ever, and it's all thanks to YOU! 💙 From hundreds of PAs and students featured on the TODAY Show, to legislators recognizing your incredible impact, to celebrations lighting up campuses across the country -- we already can't wait
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When PAs see a gap, they fill it. 💪 After years in clinical and leadership roles, Annie Wildermuth now helps healthcare professionals rethink challenges, prevent burnout, and grow as leaders. 💙 Learn more: https://t.co/MHbXe1E8eR
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Early-career PAs: Please join us at an informal networking event on October 23! Jennifer Barnett, a PA of nearly 25 years, will share tips about building confidence and sharpening clinical skills in your first years of practice. Save your spot: https://t.co/qmpKXlbqqK
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With more than 300,000 new breast cancer cases diagnosed in 2025, physician associates play a key role in prevention, screening, and patient education. Explore AAPA’s Clinical Resource Library for up-to-date CME resources, educational sessions, research articles, and more on
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How can AI help solve the nation’s healthcare workforce shortage and support an aging population? HealthFORCE, AAPA, and West Health explore five real-world ways AI can strengthen the healthcare workforce and improve outcomes for older adults in "Aging Well with AI: Empowering
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🚨 Last chance for early bird rates! 🚨 Register now for the Psych Congress PA Institute, December 11–13 in Orlando and online. Designed for PAs in psychiatry and primary care, this event focuses on advancing mental healthcare. Don’t miss out: https://t.co/4wEfXznVfe
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Escape to Clearwater Beach, Florida, this February 23–25 for the Executive Leadership Conference! 🌴 This 2.5-day event at a beach resort features dynamic speakers and valuable networking opportunities like a welcome reception with PA and NP leaders from across the country.
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The Physician Associate Foundation is proud to announce a generous contribution from @cmfgroup to support its IMPACT Grant program during PA Week and Giving Tuesday fundraising efforts. https://t.co/Fz8yTBadzR Thank you, CM&F, for being a longtime advocate and supporter of
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PAs, you made this #PAweek absolutely unforgettable! 💙🙌 Your passion and dedication inspire us every day. Let’s keep honoring this amazing profession all year long! #PAsGoBeyond
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“Why didn’t you go to medical school?” - a question PAs hear far too often. Medicine isn’t one-size-fits-all and that’s what makes it powerful. 💪 Happy PA Week to all the incredible PAs who go beyond every single day. 🩵 #PAWeek #PAsGoBeyond
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What a morning on the Plaza! 🌅 PAs and PA students brought incredible energy to the TODAY Show, showing the world how PAs go beyond every day. 💙 This #PAWeek celebration was one to remember! 🎉 #PAsGoBeyond
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In celebration of #PAweek, listen to the latest JAAPA podcast! @AAPAorg President Todd Pickard shares the latest advances from the PA profession as well as a sneak peak at what's the come! https://t.co/SWiGxXyXxv
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Check out all the white coats taking over the TODAY Show plaza this morning! 🥼🩺 Hundreds of PAs and students showed up to celebrate #PAweek — and @craigmelvin talked about his love for PAs! 🤩💙🎉 #PAsGoBeyond
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Happy PA week to all our hard working PA colleagues that are in integral part of the healthcare team! #PublicHealth #medicine #health #healthcare
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This PA Week, we’re celebrating the passion, dedication, and impact of PAs everywhere! 🎉 Hear from PAs themselves about why they’re proud to do what they do, and how they’re making a meaningful difference in the lives of their patients. 💙
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For nearly 60 years, PAs have been essential members of the healthcare team. In honor of #PAweek, AAPA President Todd Pickard shares why he’s inspired by the profession’s enduring spirit of leadership and service. https://t.co/52G6gdMimG
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For its second year, the Michael Powe Leadership in Advocacy Scholarship was awarded to 5 PA students who have exemplified qualities of a leader in the field. Read about the winners here⬇️ https://t.co/5O6AGIcl98
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For its second year, the Michael Powe Leadership in Advocacy Scholarship was awarded to 5 PA students who have exemplified qualities of a leader in the field.
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Next up this #PAweek: An Iowa PA husband-and-wife team🥰 A love of medicine and helping the underserved at their rural health clinic keep PAs Ed Friedmann and Libby Coyte going. Read their story here⬇️ https://t.co/7SfkkaMUcr
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Love of medicine, the privilege of helping people, and the challenge of making a federally certified, rural health clinic in Redfield, Iowa, work for patients keep PAs Friedmann and Coyte going.
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The OAPA continues its celebration of PA Week with its official recognition by Governor Mike DeWine and Lieutenant Governor Jim Tressel, who have issued an official proclamation honoring the contributions of Ohio’s PAs! #OhioPAs #OhioPAstudent @AAPAorg
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