Air Force accepting physician assistant applications

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RANDOLPH AIR FORCE BASE, Texas (AFPN) --  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. (Courtesy of AFPC News Service)