Our healthcare system is struggling under the twin burdens of staffing shortages and the ongoing COVID pandemic. We’ve never faced a greater need for competent, caring healthcare providers. If you’re thinking about becoming a Nurse Practitioner (NP) or Physician Assistant (PA), this is the time to take your dreams to the next level. Healthcare is…
After 23 years as a physician assistant, Leslie Clayton remains rankled by one facet of her vocation: its title. Specifically, the word “assistant.” Patients have asked if she’s heading to medical school or in the middle of it. The term confounded even her family, she says: It took years for her parents to understand she…
When it comes to the future, uncertainty is the only certainty. Think about remote work. Way back in 2019, it was slowly gaining acceptance even as most managers resisted. In 2020, companies and their employees were forced to adapt. Today many workers have traded long commutes for casual strolls to their home office. For companies…
Brio Internal Medicine announced Oct. 28 in an email to their patients that it and its Tribe513 affiliates, which includes Parkside Pediatrics, Parkside OB-GYN and the Breastfeeding Center at Parkside, have entered into an official partnership with the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) Health. While the medical organizations are partnering, Brio will remain independent and not owned…
Every incoming physician assistant student looks forward to the White Coat Ceremony when the aspiring PAs receive their first white coats, symbolically marking the beginning of their training. But students in the Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine’s PA class of 2022 began their academic journey remotely in the fall of 2020, they waited almost an extra…
Nurse practitioners in Delaware now have full practice authority, a legislative move the American Association of Nurse Practitioners (AANP) said will amount to better patient access to care, the organization said in a statement. The change comes with the passage of House Bill 141, Act to Amend Title 24 of the Delaware Code Relating to Advanced…
Dr. Aubrey Riefe could have gone anywhere to practice medicine. As a doctor of osteopathy and a family medicine practitioner, Riefe had plenty of employment options after graduating from medical school and completing her residency last year in Milwaukee. “I started talking to both Genesis (Health System) and UnityPoint back in February 2020, but that was when…
Jorge Salazar is the kind of doctor who thrives in diverse environments – he always has. Jorge Salazar wins the inaugural award for contributions to equity, diversity and inclusion in Graduate Medical Education. Born in San Luis Potosí, Mexico, he was raised near the University of Alabama at Birmingham, where his parents worked at…
When the American Academy of PAs (AAPA) recently voted to change the name of their profession from physician assistant to physician associate, it was a decision several years in the making. “The title physician associate will position PAs to successfully compete in the ever-changing healthcare marketplace by boosting the profession’s relevance and impact among stakeholder groups, especially…
Physician assistants were among the healthcare staff impacted by COVID-19 disruptions, with nearly one in eight who are still in the field reporting furloughs and more than half experiencing increased feelings of burnout, according to a new national survey. More than 96% of the physician assistants (PAs) polled by the National Commission on Certification of…
