Advisory Board August 4, 2022
To address clinical staffing shortages in underserved areas, some states are licensing assistant or associate physicians, who have graduated medical school but not completed a residency. But some medical organizations argue these individuals lack the necessary training to perform the duties of regular physicians, Mari Devereaux writes for Modern Healthcare.
Can assistant physicians improve access to care?
In 2014, Missouri became the first state to create a licensed role for assistant physicians. To become an assistant physician, an individual is required to have graduated from a recognized medical school, passed the first two steps of the U.S. Medical Licensing Exam, and not matched with or completed a residency program. Since then, four other states—Arkansas, Arizona, Kansas, and Utah—have established similar...
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