Emergency medicine, physician assistant vs family practice physician assistant

Differences between emergency medicine, physician assistant and family practice physician assistant duties and responsibilities

Emergency medicine, physician assistant example responsibilities.

• Manage a wide variety of chronic health problems including hypertension, diabetes, endocrine disorders and psychiatric illness.
• Manage lower acuity patients independently and staff higher acuity patients with an attending physician.
• Evaluate and manage patients with acute illnesses/injuries in a fast pace, dynamic emergency department environment.
• Develop and teach a diabetes education course in Spanish.
• Assist with lumbar punctures, central lines, intubation and resuscitation.
• Execute emergency endotracheal intubation, passage of NG tubes and long intestinal tubes, CPR and defibrillation.
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Family practice physician assistant example responsibilities.

• Manage ICU patients and ventilator management.
• Provide primary care services to uninsure and under-insure patients in both rural and urban community health centers throughout central California.
• Provide preventative services, routine physical exams, appropriate screening examinations, vaccinations and health education for adult and pediatric patients.
• Interpret x rays, diagnosis, and treat.
• See patients post-op in ICU and on the floors.
• Interpret EKG, plain films/CT, and laboratory values.
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