New Role, New Country: introducing US physician assistants to Scotland

New Role, New Country: introducing US physician assistants to Scotland

This paper draws from research commissioned by the Scottish Executive Health Department (SEHD). It provides a case study in the introduction of a new health care worker role into an already well established and "mature" workforce configuration It assesses the role of US style physician assistants (PAs), as a precursor to planned "piloting" of the PA role within the National Health Service (NHS)...

Evaluation of physician assistants in National Health Service Scotland.

Physician assistants (PAs) have medical training and work supervised by a doctor. In 2006-2008 the Scottish Government piloted use of USA-trained PAs. The aim of the paper is to evaluate the impact and contribution made by PAs to delivering effective health care in National Health Service (NHS) Scotland. Mixed methods, longitudinally, including interviews, feedback forms and activity data colle...

New directions for nurse practitioners and physician assistants in the era of physician shortages.

During the past 35 years, the roles for nurse practitioners (NPs) and physician assistants (PAs) have evolved in parallel with the roles that physicians have come to play. Shifting needs in primary care and expanding opportunities in specialty medicine have been the dominant trends. Future directions will be influenced additionally by the deepening physician shortage. NPs are preparing for this...

Introducing new features to Wikipedia

Wikipedia is a free web-based encyclopedia. It is written in collaboration by hundred of thousands of contributors [2]. It runs on the Open Source MediaWiki wiki engine. Introducing new features to Wikipedia is not just a technical question, but a complex sociotechnical process. Previous introductions of new features (the category system in 2004, parser functions in 2006, and flagged revisions ...

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