Advanced Practice Role: Physician Assistant (PA)
Residents’ Clinical Questions: How are they Answered and are the Answers Helpful?
Objective: To assess residents’ clinical questions, where they get their answers, the utility of those answers, and if an evidence-based medicine (EBM) workshop improves the use of evidence-based electronic resources. Design: Prospective observational cohort study. Setting: Urban family medicine teaching clinics in Edmonton, Alta, in 2007. Participants: First- and second-year family medicine residents training in the family medicine teaching […]
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Nurse Practitioners, Physician Assistants, and Certified Nurse-Midwives: A Policy Analysis
[list in .doc file]OTA case studies are designed to fulfill two functions. The primary purpose is to provide OTA with specific information that can be used in forming general conclusions regarding broader policy issues. The first 19 cases in the Health Technology Case Study Series, for example, were conducted in conjunction with OTA’s overall project […]
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Hire Midlevel Practitioners to Lower Costs in EDs
Hospitals nationwide are finding that hiring midlevel practitioners can ease problems with physician shortages and sometimes lower costs. Ukiah (CA) Valley Medical Center recently expanded its emergency department (ED) to include an urgent care center. The move would have been more difficult if the hospital hadn’t hired some midlevel practitioners to team up with ED […]
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Physician Assistant Concept Takes Off
The PA profession was created to improve and expand healthcare. In the mid-1960s, physicians and educators recognized there was a shortage of primary care physicians. To help remedy this, Eugene A. Stead Jr., MD, of the Duke University Medical Center, put together the first class of PAs in 1965. He selected four Navy Hospital Corpsmen […]
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Physician Assistants and Nurse Practitioners
Educational and certification requirements for registered nurses and nurse practitioners are not uniform. As our paper indicated, nurse practitioners are licensed registered nurses with advanced education ranging from 9 to 24 months of supervised clinical training, generally leading to a Master’s degree. However, as Maffie-Lee and colleagues indicate, many nurses obtain advanced training to become […]
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Georgia Dermatology Physician Assistants
The Georgia Dermatology Physician Assistants (GDPA) is a non-profit professional organization composed of members who provide dermatologic care or have an interest in the medical specialty of dermatology within the state of Georgia. GDPA was founded in 2002 and is a state affiliate chapter of the Society of Dermatology Physician Assistants. GDPA Fellow members provide […]
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Nebraska Dermatology Physician Assistants
TheThe NDPA is organized to provide exceptional dermatologic care to Nebraskans through ongoing medical education, networking with colleagues and physician/PA team synergy.
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