Advanced Practice Role: Physician Assistant (PA)
Tales from the Trenches: Physician Assistants’ Perspectives about Precepting Students
Purpose: A national survey of physician assistants (PAs) found that only 25% of respondents were involved as preceptors for PA students in 2011, and it also identified important barriers and incentives to precept PA students. These findings offer limited information for understanding the nature of this complex phenomenon within its context. The purpose of this […]
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Expanding the Pool of Abortion Providers: Nurse-Midwives, Nurse Practitioners, and Physician Assistants
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Nurse practitioners and physician assistants as primary care providers in institutional settings
Medicaid Payment for Nonphysician Practitioners: An Access Issue
As part of congressional efforts in the 1980s to expand access to care for Medicaid mothers and children, states were required to pay for services provided by certain advanced practice nurses. These mandates created the impetus in many states to expand payment policies for nonphysician practitioners. State Medicaid payment policies are often less restrictive than […]
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Physician Assistants and Nurse Practitioners: The United States Experience
Physician assistants (PAs) and nurse practitioners (NPs) were introduced in the United States in 1967. As of 2006, there are 110 000 clinically active PAs and NPs (comprising approximately one sixth of the US medical workforce). Approximately 11 200 new PAs and NPs graduate each year. PAs and NPs are well distributed throughout primary care […]
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The Extension of Rheumatology Services with Physician Assistants and Nurse Practitioners
The development and deployment of physician assistants (PAs) and nurse practitioners (NPs) began in the late 1960s. This has been a social phenomenon that has spread to a number of countries. The original intention was to extend the role of the busy general/family practitioner in providing access and offloading some of the workload in primary […]
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