{"id":2714,"date":"2019-09-03T10:57:21","date_gmt":"2019-09-03T14:57:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/paprogram\/?page_id=2714"},"modified":"2020-02-12T10:03:35","modified_gmt":"2020-02-12T15:03:35","slug":"news","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/paprogram\/home\/news\/","title":{"rendered":"News"},"content":{"rendered":"
Mass. Physician Assistant Programs Adopt First-in-Nation Partnership
\nto Prevent Opioid Abuse<\/strong>Process described in Special Article<\/em>(Boston)\u2014Morbidity and mortality from prescription and synthetic opioid use and abuse continues to be a U.S. public health issue. In an effort to help curtail this crisis, researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) describe an approach to ensure Physician Assistant (PA) students graduating from any PA program in Massachusetts will have the knowledge and skills to prescribe opiates safely.\u201cAs health care educators charged with preparing the next generation of Physician Assistants, faculty in PA programs can impact this growing public health crisis of opioid misuse,\u201d explained corresponding author Susan E. White, MD, Program Director, Physician Assistant Program at BUSM. \u201cPA faculty have the potential to improve the education of our students and hopefully have a positive impact on patient outcomes in Massachusetts and other states where our graduates will practice.\u201dAs a result, the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, along with the Massachusetts Association of Physician Assistants, created a working group for addressing the opioid crisis in the state by convening representatives from all nine PA programs to discuss curricular competencies as the Governor\u2019s Physician Assistant Education Working Group on Prescription Drug Misuse. The nine programs came together and adopted these competencies for a first-in-the-nation, cross-institutional partnership toward the prevention and management of prescription drug misuse.In a Special Article in the Journal of Physician Assistant Education, <\/em>the authors outline the consensus building techniques they used to build agreement. They also highlight the process used to bring all nine programs together and provide specific examples of how PA Programs teach students.<\/p>\n

The authors feel the process, competencies and curricular innovations described in their article have the potential to serve as a road-map for the development of additional statewide, interdisciplinary collaborations around an educational approach to the opioid epidemic.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is encouraging to know that we can find common ground and, in doing so, we have the potential to improve the education of our students and hopefully have a positive impact on patient outcomes,\u201d said White, who believes the process implemented in Massachusetts could be used to address other public health crises.<\/p>\n

\u201cPhysician assistant students need to be prepared to prevent and treat opioid use disorder and opioid overdose,\u201d said DPH Commissioner Monica Bharel, MD, MPH. \u201cWe were pleased to work with the PA schools in Massachusetts to incorporate addiction treatment into their school curricula.\u201d<\/p>\n

We Will Jump In<\/i>: 2019 PA Graduates Make Leap to Clinical World<\/a><\/h1>\n<\/header>\n
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The 2019 graduates outside 670 Albany Street<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cToday we celebrate the accomplishments of 28 highly successful individuals who comprise the Class of 2019,\u201d said Program Director Susan White, MD, as she opened the fourth commencement exercises for the Physician Assistant Program held Aug. 15 in the 670 Albany Street auditorium.<\/p>\n

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PA Class of 2021 Celebrates White Coat Ceremony<\/a><\/h1>\n<\/header>\n

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The Class of 2021 Physician Assistant students celebrated the start of their journey into clinical care through the Boston University School of Medicine Physician Assistant (PA) Program at its annual White Coat Ceremony held July 19.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mass. Physician Assistant Programs Adopt First-in-Nation Partnership to Prevent Opioid AbuseProcess described in Special Article(Boston)\u2014Morbidity and mortality from prescription and synthetic opioid use and abuse continues to be a U.S. public health issue. In an effort to help curtail this crisis, researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) describe an approach to ensure Physician […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16655,"featured_media":0,"parent":5,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/news.php","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/paprogram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2714"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/paprogram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/paprogram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/paprogram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16655"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/paprogram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2714"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/paprogram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2811,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/paprogram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2714\/revisions\/2811"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/paprogram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/paprogram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}