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NCCPA Will Develop Specialty Credential Program for Physician Assistants

Published February 16, 2009 1:57 PM by Stephen Cornell
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The NCCPA will develop a voluntary specialty credential program for physician assistants. The NCCPA has posted a statement on its Web site at www.nccpa.net/News_A_SpecialtyCredential.aspx.  

After several years of thoughtful consideration of how to best serve the public interest and discussions with numerous PA and physician specialty organizations and others, at a February 8, 2009 meeting, NCCPA's Board of Directors reaffirmed its commitment to offering a mechanism for the achievement of a voluntary PA specialty credential. ...

The NCCPA is developing a model for the program and will launch the program no later than 2011, according to the statement. The statement also says that NCCPA will continue to work with AAPA, physician specialty organizations and PA specialty organizations.

How will voluntary specialty credentials affect the PA profession? Hard to say. But there has never been a shortage of opinions on the subject.

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As a specialty PA I fail to see the advantage of this path unless it is to replace the PANRE for recertification.
Ryan Ahr, Neurosurgery - PA-C March 3, 2009 4:00 PM
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As practicing PAs we are supposed to be filling the spaces in primary care and specialty and providing quality cost-effective care to our patients not strangling ourselves with the primary care versus specialization debates.

carla , Family Practice, Professor - PA-C February 16, 2009 11:50 PM

I question the significance of the word "credential."  I am never asked about credentialing.  I am often asked where I received my training.  PANRE currently boards and re-boards the spectrum of generalist knowledge for the PA profession. I am distraught regarding the implications of the NCCPA's specialty credential program.

Paul , Family Practice - PA-C February 16, 2009 10:53 PM

I beg the NCCPA Board of Directors not to move fullspeed ahead with this specialty credential program.  It seems 70,000 men and women are at the mercy of the NCCPA and PAEA.  Where is the AAPA in all this?  I understand the AAPA was opposed to this and I agree with the AAPA's statements.  Our generalist training, accreditation, and state licensure requirements permit PAs the lateral mobility to change from specialty to primary care and vice-versa in filling in the spaces in our nation's health care system for the nation's benefit.  
M. Kreis , Pediatrics, Urology - PA-C, Murqette General Hospital February 16, 2009 10:11 PM

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