Yale merging physician residency with PA residency

Implementation of a Physician Assistant Emergency Medicine Residency Within a Physician Residency Author(s): Tsyrulnik, Alina; Goldflam, Katja; Coughlin, Ryan; Wong, Ambrose H.; Ray, Jessica M.; Bod, Jessica; Chekijian, Sharon; Della-Giustina, David | Abstract: Physician assistants (PA) are an important part of emergency department healthcare delivery and are increasingly seeking... escholarship.org From their abstract: Physician assistants (PA) are an important part of emergency department healthcare delivery and are increasingly seeking specialty-specific postgraduate training. Our goal was to pilot the implementation of a PA postgraduate program within an existing physician residency program and produce emergency medicine-PA (EM-PA) graduates of comparable skill to their physician counterparts who have received... Read more
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