Midlevel provider vs certified physician assistant

Differences between midlevel provider and certified physician assistant duties and responsibilities

Midlevel provider example responsibilities.

• Manage complex treatment regimens following diagnosis with medication alterations to improve overall morbidity and mortality.
• Work with pediatric populations, associate pediatric illness perform suturing orthopedic emergencies fracture care, reduction, splint and cast placement.
• Apply casts and splints to appropriate injuries.
• Monitor post-op incision sites, remove sutures and staples, change dressings, and apply splints, braces and casts.
• Gain experience in specialty areas including cardiology, ENT, dermatology, orthopedics, emergency medicine, and hematology/oncology.

Certified physician assistant example responsibilities.

• Work closely with patients to manage their depression and anxiety beginning with initial diagnosis to med-initiation and follow-up care.
• Provide bio-identical hormone replacement therapy to select patients and provide coordination of patient care in a rural primary care setting.
• Perform comprehensive history and physical exams and provide a multidisciplinary care plan for patients suffering from acute and chronic pain.
• Perform suturing repair for laceration repairs.
• Work in an outpatient orthopedic clinic with emphasis on physical medicine, rehabilitation of both chronic and acute orthopedic conditions.
• Document all procedures via dictation or handwritten in patient chart.