All clinicians — nurse practitioners, physician assistant and other allied health specialists — must obtain at least a minimum level of certification in order to be able to practice. But what exactly ...

Physician assistants (PA) practice medicine on healthcare teams with physicians and other providers. PAs are trained to obtain medical histories, perform examinations, order treatments, diagnose ...

The undergraduate Post-Baccalaureate Pre-Physician Assistant certificate is designed to give recent college graduates or working professionals who already possess a baccalaureate degree (bachelor's) ...

Layla Taghehchian started at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette in 2005. She knew she was interested in the human body, biology and diseases. Those interests led her to a family friend who was a ...

To fill gaps in underserved areas, some states are creating new categories of physician licensure, such as Missouri's assistant physician program. An analysis of the program though raises questions ...

Mariah Wood Thaxton, a physician assistant who practices with Athens-Clarke Emergency Specialists in the emergency departments of St. Mary’s Hospital in Athens and St. Mary’s Good Samaritan Hospital ...

The recent certification maintenance process changes for physician assistants are modeled after the ABMS model and should be embraced, Wanda Gonsalves, MD, wrote in an editorial in the Journal of the ...

Why a physician assistant chose to live at home with her parents As the number of physician assistant programs expands, the competition for rotation sites is expected to intensify. SAN FRANCISCO — ...

(Boston)--Morbidity and mortality from prescription and synthetic opioid use and abuse continues to be a U.S. public health issue. In an effort to help curtail this crisis, researchers from Boston ...

Abbie Hecker is a Physician Assistant at the Blood and Marrow Transplant (BMT) service at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center (formerly Seattle Cancer Care Alliance). She is also a Teaching Associate with ...