Article of the Year Award

“Impact of Physicians, Nurse Practitioners, and Physician Assistants on Utilization and Costs for Complex Patients,” authored by Perri Morgan and colleagues, published in Health Affairs – Perri Morgan, PhD, MEd, PA-C, Duke University School of Medicine   

Award Information

This award recognizes a single peer-reviewed publication related to the training and educational direction of future generations of PAs. The primary author of the article must be a PA, a PA educator, or someone directly involved in PA education.

Criteria

Articles will be evaluated in two or more of the following areas:

• Impact on the PA profession, which may include global applications
• Implications for PA education, which may include interdisciplinary training and education of the PA student, admissions processes, or workforce concerns
• Contribution of new knowledge to PA education
• Potential applicability beyond the PA profession

Requirements and materials

SUBMISSIONS

• Only two submissions are allowed per nominator

EMPLOYMENT STATUS

• Employed at least half-time at the time of nomination (0.5 FTE) at a PAEA member program and for a minimum of three cumulative years in PA education. All years do not have to be at the same program

NOMINATION LETTER

• Nomination letter describing in detail and elaborating on how the award criteria were met

RECENT ARTICLE

• Must have been published between 2018–2019

COPY OF ARTICLE

• A full PDF copy of the nominated article

LETTER OF SUPPORT

• None