I’m standing over an operating table, excising a skin cancer from the forehead of an elderly gentleman while soft piano music echoes off the floor tiles. I’ve performed this procedure thousands of ...

After being forced to wait days or weeks for an appointment at your GP surgery, it would be fair to assume that your consultation is going to be with a doctor. In reality, it may well be with a ...

In 2021, the American Academy of Physician Assistants voted to adopt “physician associate” as the official title for the profession. The organization is now called the American Academy of Physician ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . In a 198 to 68 vote, members of the American Academy of Physician Assistants’ House of Delegates passed a ...

Quinnipiac's program is based at the university's School of Health Sciences on its North Haven campus. University officials ...

Physician associates provide safe and effective care when they work under the direct supervision of doctors and care for patients who have already been diagnosed, or when they undertake procedures for ...

CSUSB had said little about why its long-awaited physician assistant program was denied accreditation. A new document paints a fuller picture.

This paper reviews the status of physician assistants/associates, an essential component of the US health care workforce. The evidence of their clinical performance and utilization trends are ...

COD provided board-governance accreditation updates and outlined safety findings after an incident at its Indio campus.

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 ...