Imposter Syndrome: An Epidemic in Medicine
This article contains affiliate links. You’ve probably heard of it: imposter syndrome. Perhaps you can relate, as it seems to
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PA Employment and Supervisory Laws
PAs serve a crucial role in improving patient access to healthcare. This data indicates that participants attribute a decline in PA employment opportunities to state legislative restrictions, which was exacerbated by SARS-CoV-2 in many states. Supervisory laws may be reducing patient access to care across all states and specialties. Participants suggested that the PA profession should seek to remove these practice barriers and better educate employers and the public to keep the PA profession viable in a constantly evolving healthcare landscape. As the clinician shortage in the US continues to worsen, barriers to PA employment will further exacerbate patient access to care.
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Call Me Medical Care Practitioner? How About Doctor
$21 million is a lot of money especially when it won’t change a single thing about PA practice. Those more important battles would likely have to wait years until a name change is complete. There is a better option. Focus on the future. Focus on becoming, and better yet earning, the title of doctor. Spend that $21 million on untethering PAs and PA Doctors from physicians. “Just say MCP?” Naw, just say Doctor.
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Does the PA Profession Have a 2030 Expiration Date?
Physician assistants (PA) are number #1 in healthcare, so getting a job for an experienced PA should be super simple.
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Is There a Physician Assistant to Nurse Practitioner Bridge?
The great English scientist Isaac Newton is credited with saying: “We build too many walls and not enough bridges.” This site began as a bridge of sorts. But there’s a new bridge everyone is talking about: a physician assistant to nurse practitioner bridge.
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The ROAD to Happiness
When students are deciding on specialties they’d like to pursue, they often talk about “The ROAD” or “The ROAD to
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Are Physicians Overtrained? Is Physician Assistant Education Enough?
In last month’s issue of JAAPA (Journal of the American Academy of PAs), PAs James Cawley, Richard Dehn, and Dr.
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According to Science, Physician Assistants Provide Quality Care with Excellent Outcomes
What happens when you analyze 30 million patient visits by Advanced Practice Providers (PAs and NPs)? You discover that they
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The Frightening Future of the Physician Assistant
“We PAs duly, and rightfully, acknowledge that we are not physicians, we are not trained to the same overall standards and requirements physicians are. We are not claiming to be able to replace physicians — who we need as much as the patients do.”
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