Work like a Doc: A comparison of regulations on residents' working hours in 14 high-income countries.

Background: Medical residents work long, continuous hours. Working in conditions of extreme fatigue has adverse effects on the quality and safety of care, and on residents' quality of life. Many countries have attempted to regulate residents' work hours.

Are the new PA students helpful to emergency medicine physicians in Israel?

Objective: Physician assistants (PA) began training in Israeli EDs in 2016. Physician perspectives were measured to evaluate the clinical contributions of PA students.

Methods: Investigators surveyed members of the Israeli Association of Emergency Medicine Physicians in 2017 to rate whether PA students were helpful in patient care and to explore perceptions about PA students.

Integration of the first physician assistants into Israeli emergency departments - the physician assistants' perspective.

Background: A new role of Physician Assistant (PA) was introduced into Emergency Departments (ED) in Israel in 2016, as part of a larger effort to improve the quality of service in the EDs. When the new role was introduced, there was a fair amount of uncertainty about whether it would succeed, in light of ambivalence on the part of many ED nurses, and lack of clarity among ED directors about the necessity of a PA role, and about the extent to which PAs would be allowed to take on professionally meaningful tasks. The first class to train PAs was run by the Ministry Of Health between May 2016 and August 2017, with 34 PA trainees participating.