Today, the roles in the health care setting have evolved and gave way to professional physician assistant roles; but what is a physician assistant really for when you already have a medical assistant?
Physician assistants are medical practitioners under the supervision of surgeons. They are licensed professionals that are highly trained to provide services and practice medicine under the supervision.
What are a Physician Assistant and What Do they Do?
Physician assistants are trained to take on some clerical tasks. They take not of the medical histories of their patients. They are also trained to perform diagnostic procedures.
Consequently they are also knowledgeable of interpreting laboratory tests, ECGs, EKGs and X-rays. They are also skilled with therapeutic procedures such as suturing, casting, splinting and treating minor injuries. This scope of services delivered, are bounded according to the state that physician assistants are practicing.
What Is a Physician Assistant and Their Difference with Medical Assistants?
Physician assistants’ roles are very different from the roles of medical assistants. They are, however, the same on the fact that they are expected to perform administrative and clinical roles at the same time. They are also both normally assigned in private clinics.
They are also involved with taking note of the patient’s medical history and records. The medical assistants’ clinical role is limited as compared to physician assistants. Physician assistants are said to perform about 80% of the physician’s total work scope. Physician assistants are also expected to have specializations according to the specialization of the physician they are assisting.
They are also commonly assigned in rural areas where the monitoring physician cannot visit regularly. They are being monitored via telephone calls; physician assistants are expected to infer with their supervising physician whenever they are subjected to tasks that are above their scope of practice.
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