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AF
accepting physician assistant applications
RANDOLPH
AIR FORCE BASE, Texas -- The Air Force is taking
applications for physician assistant Phase I training classes
in beginning January, April and August 2007.
Only active-duty enlisted Airmen are eligible to apply.
The selection board is scheduled to convene at the Air Force
Personnel Center here March 21, 2006. Completed applications
must be sent by military personnel flights and arrive no later
than Jan. 27 at HQ AFPC/DPAMW, 550 C Street West, Suite 27,
Randolph AFB TX 78150-4729.
Incomplete applications or those received after the cutoff
date will be returned and will not meet the selection board,
AFPC officials said.
To be eligible, applicants must:
-- Be on active duty in the grade of E-3 through E-8 with
a minimum of two years and a maximum of 14 years active military
service as of Aug. 31, 2007.
-- Meet age limitations specified in Air Force Instruction
36-2005 for appointment as second lieutenants in the Biomedical
Sciences Corps (less than 42 years old upon completion of
Phase II training).
-- Combined verbal and math score of 950 on the Scholastic
Aptitude Test.
-- Have a minimum general score of 80 points on the Armed
Services Vocational Aptitude Battery or Air Force Classification
Test.
-- Sixty semester hours of transferable college credits and
a grade-point average of 2.5 or better on a 4.0 scale. Twenty-nine
of the semester hours must be actual in-classroom courses
at an accredited college or university. A combined minimum
3.0 GPA is required in the math and science courses. Thirty-one
semester hours may be met from the College-Level Examination
Program, defense activity for non-traditional education support,
Community College of the Air Force, U.S. Armed Forces Institute
correspondence courses, end-of-course test or specific subject
examination.
For more information, Airmen can contact their local military
personnel flight, education office or visit the AFPC Web site
online at www.afpc.randolph.af.mil/medical/BSC/Education/PAapplication.htm.
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