The U.S. labor landscape improved as it gained jobs and unemployment remained unchanged. The healthcare sector in particular added thousands of new roles, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics April 2022 report. Employment increased by 428,000 in April as job growth increased across several sectors including healthcare. The healthcare sector added 34,000 jobs in April,…
As of May 2021, the American Academy of Physician Assistants (AAPA) House of Delegates passed a resolution altering the meaning of the medical acronym PA from “physician assistant” to “physician associate.” According to Clinical Assistant Professor Randy D. Danielsen, PhD, PA-C, of Stony Brook University’s Department of Physician Assistant Education, this change was motivated by the simplistic implications…
Many people commonly talk about going to the doctor’s office or needing to see a doctor when they’re sick, but in truth, you don’t always get to see a doctor and that’s not a bad thing. As part of our “Ask the Expert” series, in partnership with Bon Secours St. Francis, 7News Anchor Taylor Murray spoke…
Our healthcare system is struggling under the twin burdens of staffing shortages and the ongoing COVID pandemic. We’ve never faced a greater need for competent, caring healthcare providers. If you’re thinking about becoming a Nurse Practitioner (NP) or Physician Assistant (PA), this is the time to take your dreams to the next level. Healthcare is…
After 23 years as a physician assistant, Leslie Clayton remains rankled by one facet of her vocation: its title. Specifically, the word “assistant.” Patients have asked if she’s heading to medical school or in the middle of it. The term confounded even her family, she says: It took years for her parents to understand she…
When it comes to the future, uncertainty is the only certainty. Think about remote work. Way back in 2019, it was slowly gaining acceptance even as most managers resisted. In 2020, companies and their employees were forced to adapt. Today many workers have traded long commutes for casual strolls to their home office. For companies…
Brio Internal Medicine announced Oct. 28 in an email to their patients that it and its Tribe513 affiliates, which includes Parkside Pediatrics, Parkside OB-GYN and the Breastfeeding Center at Parkside, have entered into an official partnership with the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) Health. While the medical organizations are partnering, Brio will remain independent and not owned…
Every incoming physician assistant student looks forward to the White Coat Ceremony when the aspiring PAs receive their first white coats, symbolically marking the beginning of their training. But students in the Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine’s PA class of 2022 began their academic journey remotely in the fall of 2020, they waited almost an extra…
Nurse practitioners in Delaware now have full practice authority, a legislative move the American Association of Nurse Practitioners (AANP) said will amount to better patient access to care, the organization said in a statement. The change comes with the passage of House Bill 141, Act to Amend Title 24 of the Delaware Code Relating to Advanced…
Dr. Aubrey Riefe could have gone anywhere to practice medicine. As a doctor of osteopathy and a family medicine practitioner, Riefe had plenty of employment options after graduating from medical school and completing her residency last year in Milwaukee. “I started talking to both Genesis (Health System) and UnityPoint back in February 2020, but that was when…
