MedPage Today October 5, 2018
PA ‘completion’ program, more scholarships among the suggestions
WASHINGTON — Want to increase the supply of primary care physicians in the U.S.? Here’s one way to do it — make it easier for physician assistants (PAs) to get an MD degree, says Brian DeBusk, PhD.
“PAs [in particular] have a pretty good basic science background,” DeBusk, a member of the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC), said at the commission’s meeting on Thursday, during a session discussing the ways Medicare could help increase the primary care physician supply. “It seems silly that a person working as a PA successfully for years [who wants to become a doctor] has to go to medical school and start from scratch.” Instead, allopathic and osteopathic...
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