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Physician Assistant Educational Program Development

• Principal Investigator: Paul Lombardo, MPS, RPAC
• Collaborator(s): Clinical affiliates of SHTM, NYC AHEC
• Project Goal: Train 50 physician assistant students for medical practice; Increase deployment of PAs in underserved HPSAs/HMSAs; Enroll, retain, and graduate underrepresented minority in numbers proportional to their representation in the US population; Develop geriatric medicine and home health care curriculum; Develop health promotion/disease prevention curriculum; Refine and maintain currency of existing HIV/AIDs curriculum; Institute BSE/TSE Community Based Project; and Increase clinical and program faculty teaching and supervisory skills.
• Grant(s): Grants for PA Training Programs
• Funding Source(s): US Department of Health and Human Services
• Amount of Award: $2,228,000 in total for six approved grant cycles spanning 1983-2000.
• Disciplines/Fields: Physician assistant, medicine, pharmacology, pathology, physiology, anatomy, social welfare, health education, and gerontology/geriatric medicine.
• Dates: Program development ongoing, but grant objectives completed in 1998