12/01/2011
Navy Medicine Support Command 1 April 2011
Navy PA training ranked among nation’s best
FORT SAM HOUSTON, Texas – The Interservice Physician Assistant Program (IPAP) training program in San Antonio where Navy PAs train will be listed April 5 by U.S. News & World Report as the 13th best PA program among more than 140 PA graduate schools in the nation. A story in the 2012 special edition of U.S. News & World Report’s Best Graduate Schools will appear on newsstands, announcing that IPAP based at Fort Sam Houston was chosen in a 3-way tie with Northeastern University in Boston and Stony Brook University – SUNY in Stony Brook. … “I am very proud of our PA training program,” said Rear Adm. Eleanor Valentin, Navy Medicine Support Command commander and the Navy’s Medical Service Corps director, which includes PAs. “Our physician assistants are charged with the care of our most important resources in the Navy and Marine Corps – our people. So, it is essential that we provide the best training possible. Our joint training program at Fort Sam Houston accomplishes this in part by combining the best of the military services.” The quad-service IPAP is taught by Navy, Army, Air Force and Coast Guard instructors, and is comprised of students from those services and the Marine Corps. … The selection was based on peer assessment surveys within the PA discipline and can be viewed now at http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-health-schools/physician-assistant-rankings.
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