Physician Assistants and the Expanding Global Health-Care Workforce

Augmenting the rural health workforce with physician assistants

Health workforce shortages are a global phenomenon and Australia is no exception. Deficiencies are particularly pronounced in general practice, dentistry, nursing and key allied health fields. Even with the Australian health workforce growing at close to double the rate of the population and despite an increase in medical schools and student numbers, the shortage continues to worsen due to fact...

ACU workforce column: expanding and supporting the health care workforce.

Primary care physician workforce and Medicare beneficiaries' health outcomes.

CONTEXT Despite a widespread interest in increasing the numbers of primary care physicians to improve care and to moderate costs, the relationship of the primary care physician workforce to patient-level outcomes remains poorly understood. OBJECTIVE To measure the association between the adult primary care physician workforce and individual patient outcomes. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANT...

Expanding Roles of Nurse Practitioners and Physician Assistants

Advanced allied health assistants: an emerging workforce.

OBJECTIVE Nationally and internationally there is work underway to continue to advance the scope of practice of allied health assistants (AHA). The advanced role requires additional training and competency development, as well as significant clinical experience. To build on the evidence relating to advanced scope AHAs, ACT Health undertook a project to explore the potential for the development ...