Air Force accepting physician assistant applications

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RANDOLPH AIR FORCE BASE, Texas --  Air Force officials are taking applications from active-duty enlisted Airmen for Physician Assistant Phase I training classes beginning December 2010, and April and August 2011.

To be eligible for this program, 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, 2011;

-- be less than 40 years of age when they start Phase I training to meet age limitations for appointment as first lieutenants in the Biomedical Sciences Corps as specified in Air Force Instruction 36-2005, Appointment in Commissioned Grades and Designation and Assignment in Professional Categories - Reserve of the Air Force and United States Air Force;

-- have taken the Scholastic Aptitude Test within five years of the board date, with a minimum score of 450 for all areas, and a minimum combined score of 1,425 in critical reading, verbal and math;

-- have a minimum general score of 80 points on the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery or Air Force Classification Test; and

-- have completed 60 semester hours of transferable college credits with a grade point average of 2.5 or better on a 4.0 scale. Thirty of these semester hours must be actual in-classroom courses at an accredited college or university and must be completed by March 1. A combined minimum 3.0 GPA is required in math and science courses.

Thirty of the required 60 semester hours can be earned through College Level Examination Program exams, Air Force correspondence courses and Defense Activity for Non-Traditional Education Support tests.

Completed applications must be received at the Air Force Personnel Center's Biomedical Science Corps Utilization and Education Branch, AFPC/DPAMW, 550 C Street West, Suite 27, Randolph Air Force Base, Texas 78150-4729 no later than Jan. 25. The selection board is scheduled to convene at the Air Force Personnel Center here March 16.

Incomplete applications or those received after the cutoff date will be returned and not meet the selection board, said AFPC officials.

For more information on applying for the physician assistant program, Airmen should visit their local education office, view AFPC's "ASK" Web site and search the key words "physician assistant," or call the 24-hour Total Force Service Center at (800) 525-0102.