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

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Oren Berkowitz is a senior lecturer in the Department of Health Systems Management at Ariel University in Ariel, Israel. Rina Maoz-Breuer is a research associate in the Smokler Center for Health Policy Research at the Myers-JDC-Brookdale Institute in Jerusalem, Israel. Eran Tal-Or is director of the ED at Baruch Padeh Medical Center in Poriya, Israel. Rachel Nissanholtz-Gannot is chair of the Department of Health Systems Management at Ariel University and a research scholar in the Smokler Center for Health Policy Research at the Myers-JDC-Brookdale Institute. This study was funded by the Israel Ministry of Health. In addition, Dr. Berkowitz received partial funding for his faculty position by the Israel Ministry of Integration, Center for Absorption in Science. The authors have disclosed no other potential conflicts of interest, financial or otherwise.

Published: January 2021

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.

Results: Those working with a PA student felt they were helpful to very helpful in all of the clinical tasks measured. The majority (85%) of other physicians wanted to work with a PA student in the future. Ordering medications, administering IV fluid therapy, and suturing accounted for 60% of the tasks that physicians wanted to add to PA scope of practice.

Conclusions: PA students were helpful in the ED and were meeting expectations for clinical contributions. Most physicians would like to work with PAs and they would like to see PAs increase their scope of practice.

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