When 16 competing baseball teams and thousands of fans congregate for the Little League Baseball World Series in South Williamsport, nearly 60 Pennsylvania College of Technology students will take shifts at the 10-day event to help safeguard their health.
Through community partnerships, Pennsylvania College of Technology students are offering their skills at health fairs throughout Lycoming County, including ongoing events at county granges and an event at a local pharmacy.
Faculty from physician assistant programs in four states met Dec. 8-10 at Pennsylvania College of Technology to attend a seminar on "Implementing an Evidence-Based Medicine Curriculum Into Physician Assistant Training." Each of the colleges that traveled to the conference offers a master's degree for those studying to become physician assistants, and each is affiliated with a medical school.
Students in the Physician Assistant Club at Pennsylvania College of Technology raised $1,700 for a children's charity during a two-week fund-raiser in September. The money was raised through a T-shirt sale and donated to the Cancer Recovery Foundation, Children's Project.
Students enrolled in the School of Health Sciences at Pennsylvania College of Technology will partner with state and local organizations to administer free flu shots throughout Lycoming County in November. Nursing, paramedic and physician assistant students will administer flu and pneumococcal vaccine and will distribute educational materials regarding the immunizations at seven sites.
Pennsylvania College of Technology's physician assistant major was recently granted continuing accreditation for the next five years. The Accreditation Review Committee on Education for the Physician Assistant approved the physician assistant program's reaccreditation following a comprehensive site visit and the program?s submission of a self-study report.
Penn College paramedic and physician assistant students are devoting time this week at the Little League Baseball World Series in South Williamsport. Physician assistant students and faculty have been staffing the Infirmary in International Grove, the residential area set aside for the participating baseball teams, since Aug.
More than 50 students enrolled in Pennsylvania College of Technology's paramedic and physician assistant majors will help with medical coverage Aug. 18-27 at the 2006 Little League Baseball World Series. The students will be ready to offer medical services for thousands who attend and participate in the 10-day international event in South Williamsport.
Two students from the South Williamsport Area School District are the latest recipients of awards from a scholarship established at Pennsylvania College of Technology to honor the memory of the late wife of state Sen. Roger A. Madigan, a member of the college's board of directors. Jennifer C. Berrios and Andrea L.
Junior-year students from Penn College's physician assistant program participated in Susquehanna Health System's Health Festival, held April 22 at the Lycoming Mall in Muncy. Under the supervision of PA-C program staff Paula D. Holmes, program coordinator, and Kathleen A. Wiegand, clinical coordinator, the students performed more than 200 blood-pressure checks.
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