Canadian physician assistants: A new profession with new educational insight
Canada’s educational training programs are some of the most innovative in the world and use techniques that promote the skills that future clinicians need.
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Clinical officers improve health care in Kenya
Clinical officers outnumber physicians working in Kenya, and tend to work in rural areas where the need for health care is greatest.
Starting a physician assistant program in Liberia
Steve Trexler, an American PA with over 30 years of experience, discusses the development of a physician assistant program in Liberia.
In the wake of the Ebola crisis, PAs in Liberia face professional challenges
Physician assistants in Liberia have played a key role in their country’s health care during times of crisis, but they still face professional challenges.
PAs in India expanding from specialty areas to primary care
Ebin Abraham, PA, explains how the Indian PA profession began in cardiology and is now starting to expand into primary care to help meet rural health needs.
Rebuilding health infrastructure in war-torn South Sudan
Health tutor David Manana heads the Clinical Officer training program at the Maridi Health Sciences Institute.
PAs address Saudi Arabia’s health-care challenges post-Arab Spring
After the 2010 Arab uprisings, the physician assistant profession was created to address the rapidly changing health-care complications in Saudi Arabia.
Clinical officers meet Rwanda’s health needs after genocide
Emmy Bushaija, a clinical officer educator, is training the next generation of health-care providers in Rwanda.
A New Jersey nurse practitioner fights HIV in Africa
Deborah Winters, NP, used skills she learned in the United States to help create the Ethiopia HIV/ART Nurse Specialist (HANS) Training Program Evaluation.
What’s in a name? PAs thrive in the United Kingdom
U.K. physician associates in high demand, face similar challenges as U.S. counterparts. Shane Apperley, PA-R, a senior orthopaedic physician associate discusses the fairly recent profession.
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