Welcome to Health Care POV | sign in | join
ADVANCE Blog for PAs

WebMD Physician Assistant Video

Published July 29, 2008 6:14 PM by Stephen Cornell
Share
reddit Newsvine Del.icio.us Digg
Yahoo! Buzz LinkedIn StumbleUpon Google Bookmarks Mixx

Dermatology PA Courtney Aldridge and PA educator Dennis Blessing star in this WebMD video about the physician assistant profession.

Physician assistants, or PAs, are part of a fast growing trend in medicine. And they may be the ones you see next time you go to the doctor. Some areas of the country simply don’t have enough doctors, so PAs are starting to have a very healthy impact.

It's not the worst video in the world. But I'm not sure who told WebMD that 50% of PAs go into family medicine.

Link

posted by Stephen Cornell
tags: ,

2 comments
add a comment »

PingBack from http://www.postsaver.org/tags/webmd
August 7, 2009 11:47 PM

Hmmm. Well considering the video probably had to stay within a 60 second time frame, I found it quite informative. I would have added statistics (e.g. average PA salary, number of PAs in the US). These are questions people usually ask me about the PA profession. I'm glad to see US getting more exposure, no matter how brief it may be. There still needs to be so much education done about the PA profession. My patients continue to call me "doctor" b/c it's simply easier for them rather than trying to understand the difference between me and my supervisor (the M.D.).

Keep up the great work guys!
Omar Abdul-Malik, Infectious Disease - Physician Assistant, Andromeda Transcultural Health December 18, 2008 11:08 AM
Washington DC

leave a comment


To prevent comment spam, please type the code you see below into the code field before submitting your comment. If you cannot read the numbers in the image, reload the page to generate a new one.

Captcha
Enter the security code below: