April 12, 2013: 38 Airmen selected for physician assistant program

Release No: 074
April 12, 2013

38 Airmen selected for physician assistant program

by Debbie Gildea
Air Force Personnel Center Public Affairs

JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-RANDOLPH, Texas – More than three dozen Airmen, including one 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, 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 year 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

1^st Lt. Craig Ameduri, Air Mobility Command

2^nd 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, AFW

Tech. Sgt. Thomas Bradley Williams, AMC

Staff Sgt. Gregory John Walla Ford, USAFE

Staff Sgt. Samuel Douglas Jennings, MTC

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

 

Selectee averages include 28 years old with seven-plus years in service, an SAT composite score of 1,723 and a 3.43 academic grade point average, said Smith.

 

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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