Emergency medicine, physician assistant vs physician extender

Differences between emergency medicine, physician assistant and physician extender 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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Physician extender example responsibilities.

• Work closely with patients to manage their depression and anxiety beginning with initial diagnosis to med-initiation and follow-up care.
• Render emergency medical treatment and transport patients.
• Initial reading of EKG's.
• Assess patients' symptoms while conducting initial injury evaluation.
• Work in an outpatient orthopedic clinic with emphasis on physical medicine, rehabilitation of both chronic and acute orthopedic conditions.
• Perform wound care.perform laceration repair including suturing.