Palliative Care the Physician Assistant Role
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A strategy for incorporating palliative care and end-of-life instruction into physician assistant education.
PURPOSE Physician assistant (PA) education has not historically taught end-of-life and palliative care in its curricula. While medical education has been reformed in the past 15 years to include palliative care, PA education lags behind. The Medical College of Georgia PA Program obtained a HRSA grant in 2009 to teach PA students about end-of-life issues and improve palliative education in the d...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Physician Assistant Clinics
سال: 2020
ISSN: 2405-7991
DOI: 10.1016/j.cpha.2020.05.002