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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.

The 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.

Then 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 »

Sub-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 »

In 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 »