The New Jersey Legislature authorized the licensing of Physician Assistants (PAs) in 1991. These mid-level practitioners have been useful as “physician extenders” in both office and hospital settings. In primary care and surgical specialties, PAs can undertake diagnostic evaluations, manage inpatient care and function as a hospitalist, assist in surgery or invasive procedures and can perform so...

INTRODUCTION Health education provided to patients can reduce mortality and morbidity of chronic disease. Although some studies describe the provision of health education by physicians, few studies have examined how physicians, physician assistants, and nurse practitioners differ in the provision of health education. The objective of our study was to evaluate the rate of health education provis...

The Medicare rules governing the supervision of diagnostic tests have changed over time, as have the skills and training of radiologist assistants, who may have the education and clinical skills to deliver surgical and invasive procedures often performed as part of a radiology practice. However, for the purposes of Medicare coverage, radiologist assistants are not yet recognized as independent ...

For over four decades, physician assistants (PAs) have demonstrated that they are effective partners in a changing health care environment, readily adaptable to the needs of an evolving delivery system. With increased expectations of physician shortages, especially in primary care, PAs will be called on to fill provider gaps and new roles in interprofessional team-based delivery systems. There ...

THE BEGINNING Contrasting the experience in other countries, the PA profession in India started as an experiment in a private, tertiary cardiovascular facility in Chennai, Tamil Nadu state. PAs who graduated from that program moved along with the cardiologists and surgeons who left the mother institute to start their own facilities. PA graduates had an edge over medical graduates in these cente...

Selecting resources for physician assistants is challenging and can be overwhelming. Although several core lists exist for nursing, allied health, and medical libraries, judging the scope and level of these resources in relation to the information needs of the physician assistant is difficult. Medical texts can be highly specialized and very expensive, in essence, "overkill" for the needs of th...

Employing PAs in the orthopedic medicine has many obvious advantages. Firstly, utilization of a PA does not cost more than hiring a surgical assistant [7]. Although the direct collections could not cover their compensations [8], PA related services have impacted the orthopedic care significantly by decreasing wait Received: January 09, 2015; Accepted: January 21, 2015; Published: February 05, 2015

INTRODUCTION The objective of this report is to determine physician assistant (PA) productivity in an academic emergency department (ED) and to determine whether shift length or department census impact productivity. METHODS A retrospective chart review was conducted at a tertiary ED during June and July of 2007. Productivity was calculated as the mean number of patients seen each hour. Analy...