Hospitalist programs have been used as a way to more efficiently deliver healthcare in the hospital setting for decades now. But the way an organization deploys personnel in a hospitalist program can ...

It's no secret that hospitals across the country struggle with many challenges. Among them is a pressing shortage of hospital physicians and restrictions on resident duty hours that can sometimes ...

David Kendrick, PA-C, MPAS, is a Physician Assistant at the University of Utah Hospital. As a Hospitalist Physician Assistant, his clinical interest include that of caring for a variety of ...

Physician assistants are so in demand to treat the nation’s newly insured patients they are coming close to primary care physicians as the health professional most in need at U.S. hospitals and health ...

Vivian Nguyen’s interest in medicine developed during her 10-year stint in the Girl Scouts. “We learned first aid, and how to take care of each other out in the wilderness if something were to happen, ...

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 ...

Katelyn Mantz, daughter of Diane Warren Mantz, Hazle Twp., and Douglas Mantz, Tamaqua, has received notification from the National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants (NCCPA) that she ...

The Mayo program also touts advantages, such as a shorter learning curve. "After one year of our program training, the PA functions at the level of someone who would have been working, learning on the ...