Physician

If you were to ask those around me about my desire to be a physician, they would be able to tell you that I work extremely hard trying to find ways to strengthen my background in medicine. My previous healthcare experience includes shadowing, employment, and volunteer opportunities. For the last year, I have been working as a medical assistant, where I get to room patients, perform point of care tasks, and also shadow providers. While shadowing, I get to see tasks such as starting an IV, blood draw

what really drew me into this career field. I personal think this career is suited very well for my personality as well as my career goals I have for myself. I believe I can be happy do this career for the rest of my life. About the Profession As a physician assistant (PA) one can work in a variety of different settings; hospital, private practice, government, and educational. I personality would like to reenter the military with my PA degree and continue to serve the military until I reach retirement

emergency physician treats patients who are admitted into an emergency room daily and has the satisfaction that they have saved the life of a patient in a critical condition or trauma. This branch of medicine includes evaluating the condition of the patient, beginning treatment, ordering tests or X-rays, and providing medication. This discussion will provide the information to understand the necessary educational requirements, give an insight into the life of a pediatric emergency physician, provide

an Allergy Tech at a family practice based allergy clinic. It is there that I was introduced to the Physician Assistant career. I was able to observe the Physician Assistant everyday routine with the patients and witness his benevolence and empathy with every patient. Over the year, my desire for a career in the medical field grew and so did my understanding of the responsibilities of the Physician Assistant. I enjoyed working as a Clinical Allergy Specialist, but I realized I wanted more responsibility

Physician assistants play a pivotal role in the healthcare industry. This profession emerged in the 1960’s as a response to the shortage of doctors entering the workforce (Hamilton, 2016). Physician assistants can do many things with the training that they receive during their schooling such as providing diagnostic evaluations, therapeutic remediation, surgical assistance, and pharmaceutical prescription ("Physician Assistant Career Information and Job Description"). Depending on their work experience

The purpose of the research paper by DiMatteo, Hays and Prince was to explore how a physicians nonverbal communication skills can affect patient satisfaction, appointment compliance and physician workload. The skills of physical assessment by a physician, the interpretation of the lab values and the verbal communication of these results to the patient, enable a physician to diagnose an illness. An interpersonal skill, such as patient-doctor nonverbal communication is another variable that elicits

VERSATILIY The physician assistant profession is extremely versatile and flexible which are wonderful traits for a healthcare provider. In part because of their core generalist education, physician assistants can change clinical specialties over the course of their work life; using medical care providers who can adapt quickly to new opportunities could help alleviate medical workforce shortages in primary care (Hooker, Cawley, & Leinweber, 2009). Their license allows them to practice any specialty

(Medical Doctor) physicians occupy a big role in different settings of healthcare today. They tend to be very intelligent, leaders, and caring individuals which gives others a person to look to for direction and a sense of security in the workplace. However, with these responsibilities as a physician comes a great deal of work and research to get a better idea of what to do to become one and what the job includes. The several fields of research to get a better understand of a physician is the description

Physician recruitment is the key of a practice to succeed. It is a whole process from finding and hiring physicians to keeping and evaluating physicians. Good physician recruitment will lead to good outcome of the practice. Due to the impact of different factors, there is a shortage of the physicians and this situation will last for several years. If the practice wants to find and keep great physicians, they need to make a different and take actions. Different methods will be introduced throughout

primary care physicians relates to a decrease in quality? Although the Affordable Care Act of 2014 granted coverage to 20 million more people in the United States, the supply and distribution of primary care physicians creates yet another health care access barrier for Americans. Disparities within cities and neighborhoods leave some people without physicians within miles from their home. This health policy brief calls the much needed attention to the lack of primary care physicians and