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PALLA Annual Symposium

PA Program Innovation, Faculty Leadership, and Learning Symposium

The 2025 Symposium is scheduled for March 14th, 2025. Stay tuned for more details!

Our second annual symposium on PA Program Innovation, Faculty Leadership, and Learning Strategies was held on Friday, March 15, 2024. Led by industry experts, this half-day, virtual, event was designed to provide insights into best practices and strategic leadership frameworks for enhancing the quality of PA education today. The key theme of the symposium was: Student Success and Remediation.

You can find the agenda for the last symposium below. We hope you and your faculty and staff will be able to join us for future symposiums. The recordings of past symposiums can be found at the bottom of this page.

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2024 Symposium Agenda

9:10-9:55am | Jeanine Gargiulo, MMS, PA-C

Learning Objectives

  1. Define remediation.  
  2. Highlight the need for and importance of remediation.  
  3. Discuss key remediation principles and strategies.
  4. Evaluate remediation goals.  

10:00-10:45am | Shalon Buchs, MHS, PA-C

Learning Objectives

  1. Discuss strategies for early identification of students in need of intervention.
  2. Compare and contrast the utility of a learning support specialist and remediation specialist.
  3. Examine how policies and practices impact student success.

11:00-11:50am | Lucy W. Kibe, DrPH, MS, MHS, PA-C, Orette A. Clark, MD/DO, Martha Bob-Manuel Greta Vines-Douglass, MSHS, PA-C Yufu Kuo, DC, MS

Learning Objectives

  1. Recognize best practices for non-academic remediation within the context of PA education

  2. Systematically assess a student requiring non-academic remediation

  3. Recommend appropriate interventions for a student requiring non-academic remediation  

  4. Reflect on current institutional/program policies and practices in place for non-academic remediation

Past Symposium Recordings

2024 Symposium Recording

620 W. Lexington St.
Baltimore, MD 21201
(410) 706-3100

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