🥳🩺❤️Happy Physician Assistant week!!!❤️🩺🥳
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Facts about PAs:
👩🏻⚕️PAs are medical professionals who diagnose illness, develop and manage treatment plans, prescribe medications, and often serve as a patient’s principal healthcare provider.
👨⚕️Our profession was established in 1967 with Navy Hospital Corpsmen. In addition to the considerable medical training they received during their military service, they continued their formal education and graduated from Duke University’s first PA program October 6th, 1967.
👩🏿⚕️PAs are highly trained medical professionals who attend a rigorous IN person graduate level program for 27-36 months with over 2000 patient contact hours accrued before graduation. There are only 140k practicing PAs in the US.
👩🏼⚕️Before graduation, we have clinical rotations in Family Practice, Internal Medicine, Emergency Medicine, OB/GYN, Pediatrics, Surgery, Mental Health as well as elective rotations of our choice.
👨🏻⚕️PAs are licensed under the same state medical boards as physicians
👩🏻⚕️PAs pass a national certification exam know as the PANCE before earning our “C” (PA-C).
***That C stands for CERTIFIED***
👩🏾⚕️PAs take a recertification exam known as the PANRE every 6-10 years and must accrue 100 Continuing Medical Education (CME) credit hours every 2 year cycle to maintain our certification.
👨🏻⚕️PAs are versatile, arguably the MOST versatile medical profession. We can and do work in any medical field and we can change specialties as our individual training allows.
👩🏻⚕️PAs are LEADERS: We supervise support staff, often serve as primary care providers, teach and precept students, and take great care of our patients!!
🩺🥳❤️Anyone else love their PA?!❤️🥳🩺
Happy PA week to all my colleagues!!!
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Thank you for all that you do!!!!
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