Physician assistants, often considered primary care professionals, are entering more specialty fields including surgery and emergency medicine amid a nationwide doctor shortage, according to a new ...

Physician assistants (PA) aren’t just working in primary care anymore, as a new report shows an overwhelming majority work in specialty areas, including both hospital medicine and surgery. The report ...

Considering a primary care specialty for your physician assistant career? Clinical Advisor recently spoke with the director of a well-respected PA degree program, Cindy Lord, PA-C, MHS, of Quinnipiac ...

Physician assistants, also known as PAs, practice medicine under the direction of physicians and surgeons. They are formally trained to examine patients, diagnose injuries and illnesses, and provide ...

Median total wages for physican assistants working in cardiovacular and cardiothoracic surgery in 2021 were $140,000, making it the highest paid specialty, according to the American Academy of ...

It’s not just primary care practices that are increasingly relying on advanced practice clinicians to help care for patients. A new study found that 28% of all specialty practices are employing nurse ...

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 ...

We are committed to provide excellence in emergency medicine education, research, and medical service to our patients and community. Since 2010, Emergency Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine has ...

The job market is luring more physician assistants, or PAs, to jobs in specialty care rather than primary care practices such as family medicine and general pediatrics, according to new research from ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The Health Services Research Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill conducted a national survey of working Physician's ...

Patients put a lot of trust in their doctors. They rightfully expect their docs to care about and direct every aspect of their treatment. Physician assistants are a direct reflection of the doctors ...