Physician Assistants

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • "It's hard to make predictions, especially about the future". 
  • "Not the 'grim reaper service'": an assessment of provider knowledge, attitudes, and perceptions regarding palliative care referral barriers in heart failure. 
  • A Program's Analysis of Communication Methods With Clinical Preceptors. 
  • A framework for revising preservice curriculum for nonphysician clinicians: The mozambique experience. 
  • A novel curriculum to train physician assistant students how to write effective discharge summaries. 
  • Advanced Practice Provider Versus Physician-Only Outpatient Follow-Up After Acute Myocardial Infarction. 
  • Advocacy: how we can support physician assistants. 
  • Anticipating the profession's future. 
  • Are You SURE You Want to Send That? A Model for Email Professionalism in Medical Education. 
  • Association between evidence-based training and clinician proficiency in electronic health record use. 
  • BP control. Improvement in a university medical clinic by use of a physician's associate. 
  • COVID Collaborations: A Physician Assistant Program and Health Department Partnership. 
  • Can we close the income and wealth gap between specialists and primary care physicians? 
  • Celebrating PA Week. 
  • Choice of specialties among physician assistants in the United States. 
  • Clinical decision support provided within physician order entry systems: a systematic review of features effective for changing clinician behavior. 
  • Clinician perception of the impact of deployed physical therapists as physician extenders in a combat environment. 
  • Coming Out, Getting Comfortable: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Plus Inclusion and Curricular Considerations. 
  • Commentaries on health services research. 
  • Comparing oncologist, nurse, and physician assistant attitudes toward discussions of negative emotions with patients. 
  • Considerations Around Predicting Physician Assistant National Certifying Exam Scores From PACKRAT®: A Multiprogram Study. 
  • Considerations When There Is Need for an Interim Program Director. 
  • Course on care of patients with chronic illness: patient-centered medical home model. 
  • Cross-sectional analysis of US scope of practice laws and employed physician assistants. 
  • Diffusion of PA innovation: Risk-taking vs. safe bet. 
  • Division of primary care services between physicians, physician assistants, and nurse practitioners for older patients with diabetes. 
  • Do Physician Assistant Students Use Retrieval-Based Strategies While Studying? 
  • Dr Carek's Commentary on Training PAs and NPs. 
  • Emergency physician evaluation of PA and NP practice patterns. 
  • Emerging practices in onboarding programs for PAs and NPs. 
  • Emerging practices in onboarding programs for PAs: Program content. 
  • Emerging practices in onboarding programs for PAs: Strategies for onboarding. 
  • Employment of mid-level providers in primary care and control of diabetes. 
  • Entrustable Professional Activities: A New Direction for PA Education? 
  • Evaluation of an evidence-based, nurse-driven checklist to prevent hospital-acquired catheter-associated urinary tract infections in intensive care units. 
  • Facilitating Research in Physician Assistant Programs: Creating a Student-Level Longitudinal Database. 
  • Factors Associated With Having a Physician, Nurse Practitioner, or Physician Assistant as Primary Care Provider for Veterans With Diabetes Mellitus. 
  • Fewer Words, More Action: Cultivating an Anti-Racist Environment Strategies/Solutions (CARES) Framework for Physician Assistant Education. 
  • Finding Our Way: Embracing Faculty Flexibility in the COVID-19 Era. 
  • Future growth of physicians and non-physician providers within the U.S. Dermatology workforce. 
  • HIV medical care provider practices for reducing high-risk sexual behavior: results of a qualitative study. 
  • Impact Of Physicians, Nurse Practitioners, And Physician Assistants On Utilization And Costs For Complex Patients. 
  • Impact of On-Site Hospital Medicine Curriculum on Preceptor Perception of Rotation. 
  • Impact of physician assistant care on office visit resource use in the United States. 
  • Implementation and Challenges of Training Nurse Practitioners and Physician Assistants in a University Fellowship Program: Comment on the Article by Smith et al. 
  • Improving physician assistant education and practice in SUD and policy recommendations on substance abuse education for physician assistants. 
  • Incorporating electronic medical records into the physician assistant educational curriculum. 
  • Increasing Physician Assistant Students' Team Communication Skills and Confidence Throughout Clinical Training. 
  • Intermediate Diabetes Outcomes in Patients Managed by Physicians, Nurse Practitioners, or Physician Assistants. 
  • Intermediate Diabetes Outcomes in Patients Managed by Physicians, Nurse Practitioners, or Physician Assistants: A Cohort Study. 
  • Interpersonal continuity of primary care of veterans with diabetes: a cohort study using electronic health record data. 
  • Is One Lecture Enough? Self-Perception of Bias and Cultural Training in Medical Education. 
  • It's all about the students. 
  • Job openings for PAs by specialty. 
  • Knowing Your Worth: Salary Expectations and Gender of Matriculating Physician Assistant Students. 
  • Leadership case study: Joyce Ann Clayton Thorpe Nichols, PA-C. 
  • Leveraging E-Learning for Pedagogical Innovation in PA Education. 
  • Medical Directors' Roles in the Strategic Planning for Physician Assistant Education. 
  • Missing in action: care by physician assistants and nurse practitioners in national health surveys. 
  • NP and PA Privileging in Acute Care Settings: Do Scope of Practice Laws Matter? 
  • Noncognitive Attributes in Physician Assistant Education. 
  • Nurse practitioners, certified nurse midwives, and physician assistants in California. 
  • Nurse practitioners, physician assistants, and physicians in community health centers, 2006-2010. 
  • One physician's perspective on the physician-PA relationship. 
  • Outpatient cardiology practices with advanced practice nurses and physician assistants provide similar delivery of recommended therapies (findings from IMPROVE HF). 
  • PA job availability in primary care during 2014 and 2016. 
  • PA prototype-the legacy of Buddy Treadwell. 
  • Patient characteristics associated with primary care PA and APRN roles. 
  • Patient preference in primary care provider type. 
  • Physician Assistant Educator Competencies. 
  • Physician Assistant Job Satisfaction: A Narrative Review of Empirical Research. 
  • Physician Assistant Program Policies to Assess and Address Student Reports of Mistreatment During Clinical Training. 
  • Physician Assistant Student Training for the Inpatient Setting: A Needs Assessment. 
  • Physician Assistants and Nurse Practitioners in Ophthalmology-Has the Time Come? 
  • Physician assistant specialty choice: Distribution, salaries, and comparison with physicians. 
  • Physician assistants and nurse practitioners as a usual source of care. 
  • Physician assistants and nurse practitioners: a missing component in state workforce assessments. 
  • Physician assistants don't participate in executions. 
  • Physician assistants. A young profession celebrates the 35th anniversary of its birth in North Carolina. 
  • Physician assistants. Last bastion of primary care--or will they follow physicians into specialized practice? 
  • Physician extenders, protocols, and quality medical care. 
  • Preceptors' Perceptions of Interprofessional Practice, Student Interactions, and Strategies for Interprofessional Education in Clinical Settings. 
  • Predicted shortages of physicians might even disappear if we fully account for PAs and NPs. 
  • Prepare for landing: a student orientation for international clinical rotations. 
  • Primary care physician assistant and advance practice nurses roles: Patient healthcare utilization, unmet need, and satisfaction. 
  • Primary care provider type: Are there differences in patients' intermediate diabetes outcomes? 
  • Primary care provider views of the current referral-to-eye-care process: focus group results. 
  • Race, ethnicity, and the physician assistant profession. 
  • Reducing Inappropriate Antibiotic Prescribing for Adults With Acute Bronchitis in an Urgent Care Setting: A Quality Improvement Initiative. 
  • Reflections on a Physician Assistant Entrance Exam: Does the Profession Need One? 
  • Reimagining Physician Assistant Education. 
  • Reinventing the Wheel: One Program's Approach to Redesign of Didactic Courses. 
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  • Research on the PA profession: The medical model shifts. 
  • Role of physician's assistant and the plastic surgeon. 
  • Scarcity of Primary Care Positions May Divert Physician Assistants Into Specialty Practice. 
  • Specialty distribution of physician assistants and nurse practitioners in North Carolina. 
  • State Scope of Practice Laws: An Analysis of Physician Assistant Programs and Graduates. 
  • Strategies for improving patient compliance. 
  • Supervisor, Colleague, or Assistant: General Surgery Resident Perceptions of Advanced Practitioners. 
  • Surgical trainees in the Duke Physician's Associate program. 
  • Tales from the trenches: physician assistants' perspectives about precepting students. 
  • Teaching pharmacology in a physician assistant program. 
  • Teaching population health: a competency map approach to education. 
  • The Americans With Disabilities Act, Reasonable Accommodations, and Medical Education. 
  • The North Carolina Physician Assistant Program Directors Council-Collaboration, Collegiality, and Scholarship. 
  • The assistant medical officer in Sri Lanka: mid-level health worker in decline. 
  • The benefits of expanded physician assistant practice in hospice and palliative medicine. 
  • The burden of inbox-messaging systems and its effect on work-life balance in dermatology. 
  • The contributions of physician assistants in primary care systems. 
  • The physician assistant teaching fellowship: A model for faculty recruitment. 
  • The roles and supply of nurse-midwives, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants in North Carolina. 
  • The roles of primary care PAs and NPs caring for older adults with diabetes. 
  • Trained and supervised physician assistants can safely perform diagnostic cardiac catheterization with coronary angiography. 
  • Trends in primary care clinician perceptions of a new electronic health record. 
  • Using the Core Competencies for New Physician Assistant Graduates to Prioritize Admission Criteria for PA Practice in 2025. 
  • Utilization and Costs by Primary Care Provider Type: Are There Differences Among Diabetic Patients of Physicians, Nurse Practitioners, and Physician Assistants? 
  • Validation of a Novel Statistical Method to Identify Aberrant Patient Logging: A Multi-Institutional Study. 
  • What Can a PA or NP Do for Your Practice? 
  • What about physician assistants? 
  • Why the science of healthcare delivery matters to practicing PAs. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Everett, Christine M, Adjunct Professor in the Department of Population Health Sciences, Population Health Sciences
  • Morgan, Perri Anne, Professor in Family Medicine and Community Health, Family Medicine and Community Health, Physician Assistant Program
  • O'Connor, Christopher Michael, Richard Sean Stack, M.D. Distinguished Professor, Medicine, Clinical Pharmacology
  • Railey, Kenyon Michael, Associate Professor in Family Medicine and Community Health, Orthopaedic Surgery, Physical Therapy
  • Strand de Oliveira, Justine, Professor Emeritus in Family Medicine and Community Health, Family Medicine and Community Health, Physician Assistant Program