General practitioner vs physician assistant

Differences between general practitioner and physician assistant duties and responsibilities

General practitioner example responsibilities.

• Shadow and note specific medical cases as well as participated in patient diagnosis and treatment plan discussions
• Evaluate a variety of medical conditions and afflictions, including making comprehensive diagnosis and specifying treatment plans.
• Serve as initial contact to hospital patients; conduct thorough patient assessments and coordinate referrals to appropriate physicians base on findings
• Assist in major elective and emergency surgeries such as appendectomies, exploratory laparotomy, thyroid surgery, hysterectomy and cesarean operations.
• Collect and dispatch blood samples according to national malaria eradication and sputum samples for national tuberculosis control program.

Physician assistant example responsibilities.

• Manage a variety of acute and chronic conditions especially asthma, allergies, injuries, and infectious diseases.
• Manage chronic conditions such as hypertension, diabetes, ASCVD, chronic back and joint pains, depression, and anxiety.
• Manage patient surgical care throughout the continuum of care from pre-op, to discharge planning, including ambulatory and hospital in-patients.
• Attain pertinent history & physicals for obstetrics and gynecological acute and preventative visits.
• Work closely with patients to manage their depression and anxiety beginning with initial diagnosis to med-initiation and follow-up care.
• Aid in the acute management of trauma patients including obtaining appropriate studies, suturing, and CPR.
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