Is the PA role like the Dr role?
Stethoscope - Yes
Lanyard - Yes
Scrubs - Yes
Claims “medical” - Yes
Accredited course - No
Medical School - No
10 - 15 years training - No
Taught by Drs - No
"PA studies" is an unaccredited course, mostly taught by non Drs and lasts 2 years.
Stethoscope - Yes
Lanyard - Yes
Scrubs - Yes
Claims “medical” - Yes
Accredited course - No
Medical School - No
10 - 15 years training - No
Taught by Drs - No
"PA studies" is an unaccredited course, mostly taught by non Drs and lasts 2 years.
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I'd wanted to discuss a trial medication I was testing. Even the GPs have been looking it up because Long Covid is badly understood & it was new
Whilst I am willing & able to ask someone who is diagnosing my condition what their credentials are I suspect many are not.
It is unreasonable & potentially dangerous people could be misled.
In my view it’s the hard won experience & mentoring that accrue through the years practical patient contact that is not being replicated with PAs.
Anyway, the sessions went very well.
My practice no longer has one on staff.
PAs are like us all, a mixed bunch.
Claims that PAs occupy poles of either victim status or incompetence are no help and distract from the failure of policy at the heart of this.
https://www.fparcp.co.uk/becoming-a-pa
They seem unhappily trapped between two real roles...
The PA role is under trained for the tasks it is deployed to meet.
This is very
much a policy and system issue, and not an individual PA issue.
Patients, ordinary PAs, grass roots doctors and public have all been misled.
I would - and have been - mortified when asked to perform tasks which are outside my remit & for which I am NOT qualified & had insufficient training for.
Can you please clarify
a little? I’m not quite sure where the harshness might be?
oops, FQHC
typo
What point are you trying to make? Are you suggesting PAs are pretending to be Drs?
I'm the US, physician assistants are essentially a physician extender, they have a supervisor, can see most things, but for the complex they have to have a conversation with the doc.
Is the training different in the UK..1/2
were it happening.
Some like to paint pictures of extremes:
These appear to be the claim and counter claim that PAs are inappropriate versus the counter that PAs are victims.
IMHO both claims distract from the central issue of a failed policy.
Thank you.
The 2 year “PA studies” course requires some prior degree.
An investigation by the Daily Telegraph this year revealed that degrees including Homeopathy, English Literature,
Biology and others were all accepted. Nursing is not a precondition.
And not just knowledge.
It has always been my impression that the “boots on the ground” clinical experience of nursing colleagues enables them to sense when something is going to go wrong. “All obs normal but something not right.”
Hard won clinical acumen.