The future of the physician assistant movement.
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The Medical Journal of Australia ISSN: 0025729X 1 February 2010 192 3 116-116 ©The Medical Journal of Australia 2010 www.mja.com.au Editorials Various explanations regarding why this professio have been advanced. Clearly, PAs fit well in the e American health care system; economic advantages, c ity and dependence on doctors are factors that cont success. But it is other countries that are building o model. With a worldwide shortage of 4.5 million d inadequate number of medical schools, the sheer wei Two phenomena are shaping physician assistants and their futures: change in human societies and change in health care delivery
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- The Medical journal of Australia
دوره 192 3 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2010