In most of the United States, P.A.s are still legally required to work with oversight from a doctor. But just how closely a P ...

How increased responsibilities and a push to be called “physician associates” are raising tensions with doctors.

Under Massachusetts' new healthcare cost-control law, legislators are counting on physician assistants like Tuff as critical partners in the effort to curb medical spending, improve the coordination ...

We are committed to provide excellence in emergency medicine education, research, and medical service to our patients and community. Since 2010, Emergency Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine has ...

Dr. Eric Sauers, dean of the A.T. Still University program in Santa Maria, speaks during a meet-and-greet event last month. He also gave an update to the Santa Maria City Council on Tuesday. (Janene ...

Dec. 15—Idaho State University is partnering with Lewis-Clark State College to place a new physician assistant training cohort to northern Idaho, the schools announced Friday. ISU runs the state's ...

A.T. Still University’s Ted Wendel, interim dean for the Central Coast Physician Assistant program, talks to the first cohort of students at the new Santa Maria program. (Janene Scully / Noozhawk ...

The benefit of training our own physician assistants is that we get providers who are intimately familiar with military life. They know what our Soldiers lives are like in the Army, what (Soldiers) ...

Physician assistants, also known as PAs, practice medicine under the direction of physicians and surgeons. They are formally trained to examine patients, diagnose injuries and illnesses, and provide ...

Created to address clinical staffing shortages in underserved areas, the assistant physician role is also designed to employ medical school graduates who have not matched into a residency program.