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The physician assistant career was started by a man named Dr. ... 1965 was the year of the first physician assistant program. ... This profession has expanded from the first graduating class of just a few corpsmen to 45,000 physician assistant today.
Physician assistant (PAs) are healthcare provider licensed to practice medicine under the supervision of a physician. PAs are often misconstrued with medical assistant whose scope of practice only consist of routine clinical and clerical tasks. ... PAs also at times may make house calls or go to the hospital and nursing homes to check on patients and report to their supervising physician. The duties of PAs are determined by the supervising physician and by the state law. ... Some PAs actually own their own practice and hire a supervising physician to work for them. ... After graduating from an accredited PA program, the student is eligible to sit for the national certifying examination, which is given by the National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants (NCCPA) in conjunction with the Nation Board of Medical Examiners. ... If you do not graduate from an accredited PA program, you will not be eligible to sit for the national certifying examination for physician assistants, which if administered by the NCCPA as I said previously. ...
The future of the physician assistant profession has a good outlook. ... PAs work week depends on the supervising physician. ...
As I stated before a physician assistant is required to obtain one hundred hours of continuing education credits(CME) every two years.
Approximate Word count = 1191
Approximate Pages = 4.8
(250 words per page double spaced)
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