Emergency medicine, physician assistant vs senior physician

Differences between emergency medicine, physician assistant and senior physician 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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Senior physician example responsibilities.

• Manage emergency medical treatments on patients with life threatening illnesses and/or injuries.
• Work closely with patients to manage their depression and anxiety beginning with initial diagnosis to med-initiation and follow-up care.
• Assist with dental surgery and lab procedures.
• Provide training and education of clients on EMR submission.
• Participate and conduct hospital rounds, ICU rounds, consultation, writes orders, and being on calls for trauma patients.
• Monitor patients's progress and condition, re-evaluat treatments as necessary.
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