The United States has since the 1960s developed a cadre of physician assistants to work in
primary care. They mainly work semi-autonomously in association with individual doctors, …

The 1960s saw a rethinking of health care delivery in the United States. The physician
assistant (PA) emerged from that reconceptualization, along with the nurse midwife (CNM) and …

In part because of their core generalist education, physician assistants can change clinical
specialties over the course of their work life. This is known as career flexibility . Using medical …

… Author links open overlay panel Janet Allan PhD, RN a , Timi Agar Barwick b , Suzanne
Cashman ScD c , James F. Cawley MPH, PA-C b , Chris Day MPH d , Chester W. Douglass DMD…

Objective. A component of health-care reform in 2010 identified physician assistants (PAs) as
needed to help mitigate the expected doctor shortage. We modeled their number to predict …

Methods We analyzed 5 years of data (2005–2009) from the outpatient department subset
of the National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey. We abstracted data on 136,432 …

Introduction: A global shortage of doctors has led to strategies to improve access to care.
The physician assistant/associate (PA) was established in North America and Africa in the …

Background The concept of the physician assistant (PA) was developed by US physicians in
the 1960s as a workforce strategy to improve the delivery of medical services. Then as now …

We examined US nurse practitioner (NP) and physician assistant (PA) outpatient antibiotic
prescribing. Antibiotics were more frequently prescribed during visits involving NP/PA visits …

The introduction of the American physician assistant/associate (PA) was predicated on the
belief that the nation's health care needs had outpaced the supply of physicians. The notion …