Cette profession non reconnue au Québec, mais présente dans d’autres provinces, pourrait améliorer sensiblement l’accès à la première ligne pour les patients, en plus de soulager l’horaire des médecins.
Médias
Physician assistants are coming to emergency rooms, but what do they do?
janvier 24th, 2023The provincial government is promising to add physician assistants to emergency departments as part of a long list of planned changes to improve emergency care in Nova Scotia… Read more.
COVID-19 unit staff take care to wash away the danger
août 12th, 2020Then there are those like Angele Viger. She volunteered to care for COVID-19 patients after the cardiac clinic she worked in temporarily closed during quarantine. “I really wanted to use my medical knowledge and my experience to help during COVID… Lire la suite »
The Unsinkable Doc
mai 27th, 2020Sub-Lieutenant Nicole Spivey, HMCS Nanaimo’s Physician Assistant “Is the Doc in here?” asks a member of the ship’s company as they poke their head into the wardroom. The Doc is in. Sub-Lieutenant (SLt) Nicole Spivey, HMCS Nanaimo’s Physician Assistant, or Doc as… Lire la suite »
SickKids maximizes frontline PA team in virtual Emergency Department workflow
mai 12th, 2020In a new First View Commentary in the Canadian Journal of Emergency Medicine authors Dr. Daniel Rosenfield, Jordan Levinter, CCPA, et al. outline how Toronto’s SickKids hospital established novel roles for self-isolated physicians and its frontline PA team during COVID-19…. Lire la suite »