38 Airmen selected for physician assistant program
Posted 4/12/2013 Updated 4/12/2013
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by Debbie Gildea
Air Force Personnel Center Public Affairs
4/12/2013 - JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-RANDOLPH, Texas (AFNS) -- More than three dozen Airmen, including one U.S. Air Force Academy cadet, have been selected for the Interservice Physician Assistant Program, Air Force Personnel Center officials announced today.
Out of 52 applicants, six officers (one an alternate), one U.S. Air Force Academy cadet and 31 enlisted members were selected for the program conducted at Fort Sam Houston, San Antonio, Texas. Originally open only to enlisted members, IPAP is now open to enlisted, officers and Academy and Reserve Officer Training Corps cadets, said Kevin Smith, the AFPC Biomedical Sciences Corps education manager.
Once enlisted members complete the program, they will be commissioned as first lieutenants, Smith said. In addition, senior airmen selected for IPAP will be promoted to staff sergeant the day before they depart for the course. Technical sergeants and above selected for promotion will pin on before the program entry date as well.
While attending IPAP, officers and cadets will be conditionally reappointed as Medical Service Corps officers and will wear the grade as required.
Officers selected must start their training in the current fiscal year, and will join three enlisted students selected in March 2012 for the final class of fiscal 2013.
August IPAP students include the following:
Capt. Jennifer Middlebrooks, Air Combat Command
Capt. Ryan Seymour, Air Education and Training Command
Capt. Megan Gail Steele, Air Force Global Strike Command
1st Lt. Craig Ameduri, Air Mobility Command
2nd Lt. Brittany Loeser, Air Force Space Command
Cadet Laura Young, U.S. Air Force Academy
August 2013 students selected in 2012:
Senior Airman Elissa Nicole Beebe
Senior Airman Nicholas Cruz Bialobos
Staff Sergeant Megan Leigh Stanton
August IPAP Alternate:
Capt. Amanda Curtis, AETC
December IPAP students include the following:
Master Sgt. Thaddeus Mitcham, AFGSC
Master Sgt. Garrett Reilly, AMC
Master Sgt. Nicholas Wentworth, U.S. Air Forces in Europe
Tech. Sgt. James Bryan McDonald, AETC
Tech. Sgt. Erin Pauline Schmitz, ACC
Tech. Sgt. Jason Michael Simmons, Air Force Special Operations Command
Staff Sgt. Mario De La Barrera, USAFE
Staff Sgt. Shannon Long, Air Force District of Washington
Staff Sgt. Joshua Timothy Neal, AFSOC
Staff Sgt. Collin Urbanowicz, ACC
Staff Sgt. Jonathon Williams, AETC
Senior Airman Cortnee Noel Simmers, AFDW
April 2014 students include the following:
Master Sgt. Jeremy James Thompson, ACC
Tech. Sgt. Jesse Leon Jenkins, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance
Tech. Sgt. Jennifer J. Saner, AFDW
Tech. Sgt. Thomas Bradley Williams, AMC
Staff Sgt. Gregory John Walla Ford, USAFE
Staff Sgt. Samuel Douglas Jennings, AFMC
Staff Sgt. Adam David Myers, AETC
Staff Sgt. Christopher Allen Pina, AETC
Staff Sgt. John George Proen, Jr, AFGSC
Senior Airman Cindy Jessenia Fernandez, ACC
Senior Airman David Lee Fleming, ACC
Senior Airman Ryan Christopher Griffith, AETC
August 2014 students include the following:
Tech. Sgt. Kristofer James Darrow, AETC
Staff Sgt. Michael Anbese Deme, ISR
Staff Sgt. Sidonia N Farnsworth, PACAF
Staff Sgt. Juan Mercado Guzman, USAFE
Staff Sgt. Everlino Aben Ramos, ACC
Senior Airman Chad Michael Betty, USAFE
Senior Airman Laura Jean Fuller, ACC
The average selectee is 28 years old with seven-plus years in service, an SAT composite score of 1,723 and a 3.43 academic grade point average, Smith said.
For more information about Air Force medical fields and opportunities, go to the medical knowledge exchange site at https://kx.afms.mil, or the myPers website at https://mypers.af.mil. |
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