background: revision and promotion of educational programs, as well as guiding such programs from the traditional to modern ones, have been one of the goals of educational planning in order to improve the educational status. the present study was performed based on the opinions of the cardiology assistants.   methods:  this research was a cross sectional study and all the participants included ...

OBJECTIVES To explore the prevalence and associated factors of burnout among five different medical professions in a regional teaching hospital. DESIGN Cross-sectional study. SETTING Hospital-based survey. PARTICIPANTS A total of 1329 medical professionals were recruited in a regional hospital with a response rate of 89%. These voluntary participants included 101 physicians, 68 physician ...

Physician Assistants (PAs) have become an integral part of the United States (U.S.) health care system since the profession began in the late 1960s. PAs have been suggested as solutions to predicted physician shortages especially in primary care. This study examined the predictors of primary care and rural practice patterns of PAs in Utah. A cross sectional survey design was utilized. The outco...

d T n ( URPOSE: The Mount Sinai Surgical Residency program ses physician assistants and nurse practitioners, jointly termed on-physician practitioners (NPPs), to adhere to the 80-hour ork-week restrictions implemented by Accreditation Council f Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) resident duty hour equirements initiated in 2003. A survey was performed to deermine how the integration of NPPs into...

O ver the last several years, a wave of provisions hostile to medication abortion have been introduced by antiabortion state and federal legislators. Such provisions fall in two categories. The first requires that medication abortion protocols hew strictly to an outdated regimen specified by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) when medication abortion was first approved, which prohibits alte...

As an academic physician primarily involved in basic science, I have often taken issue with EBM. It sometimes seems that the ultimate goal of EBM is to strictly codify illness so that treatment can be readily looked up online by PAs [physician assistants] or nurse practitioners. Such an outcome would be great for reimbursement coding and tort defense, but would be detrimental to patient care an...

S mith and Tevis have provided a helpful comparative overview of the background, training, and practice environment of physician’s assistants (PAs) working in US and UK emergency departments (EDs). However, they leave unanswered a number of questions about the role and relative value of PAs. This commentary highlights many of the issues that remain to be addressed and their wider implications. ...

OBJECTIVE To quantify the total contribution to generalist care made by nurse practitioners (NPs) and physician assistants (PAs) in Washington State. DATA SOURCES State professional licensure renewal survey data from 1998-1999. STUDY DESIGN Cross-sectional. Data on medical specialty, place of practice, and outpatient visits performed were used to estimate productivity of generalist physicia...

BACKGROUND Accreditation Council on Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) duty hour restrictions have led to the widespread implementation of non-house staff services in academic medical centers, yet little is known about the quality and efficiency of patient care on such services. OBJECTIVE To evaluate the quality and efficiency of patient care on a physician assistant/hospitalist service compa...