Physician assistant vs midlevel provider

Differences between physician assistant and midlevel provider duties and responsibilities

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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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.