Find PA Programs Faster – Upgraded Search Functionality

April 2, 2011 in Current PAs, PA Educators, PA Pals, PA Students, Prospective PAs

We’ve dramatically improved the speed with which you can search out the PA School of your choice! Here’s a list of changes that have improved the process and why they are important for you…


-State listings and regions have been combined — Less clicks and less loading equates to faster availability to find what you’re looking for


-Every physician assistant program with a dedicated url (web address) — Before, all search functionality was housed within a single feed on a single page.  Therefore, a bookmark would only bring one to the beginning region area.  Furthermore, if there were problems with loading, clicking the refresh button would reset everything back to the beginning region area.  Now, you can bookmark specific programs, for each has its own dedicated page.  If there any loading problems and you hit refresh, it will remain in the area you are investigating!


-Region links on every page — You’ll notice above and below each PA Program Summary profile, and at the top and bottom of every region page, a navigation line of 7 links dedicated to jumping quickly to any region you choose, making navigation that much easier.  Here’s what it looks like.

ALL REGIONS | EAST | NORTHEAST | SOUTHEAST | MIDWEST | HEARTLAND | WESTERN


-Cleaner coding — OK, so this is technical and most of you probably don’t care, but I’ll say it anyway.  The code written in the background is now much “cleaner,” which means less aggravation with waiting for pages to load and easier researching for you!


There you have it! We’d love to hear from you. What do you think of the new search system? Oh, and yes, if you find any bugs, please let us know right away so we can fix them. HAPPY SEARCHING!

1 response to Find PA Programs Faster – Upgraded Search Functionality

  1. Great updates! The PA Program Search is still one of my favorite features on the site! Thank you!

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