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The benefits and limitations of establishing the PA profession globally: A systematic review and mixed-methods study.
JAAPA
November 2024
Arden R. Turkewitz practices in family medicine at Hawai'i Island Community Health Center in Hilo and Kea'au, Hawai'i. Jane P. Sallen practices in orthopedic surgery at Dignity Health Medical Foundation in Redwood City, Calif. Rachel M. Smith practices in dermatology at Knoxville (Tenn.) Dermatology Group. Kandi Pitchford is an associate professor and director of capstone, outcomes, and assessment in the PA program at South College in Knoxville, Tenn. Kimberly Lay is an associate professor and associate program director of the PA program at South College. Scott Smalley is president of the International Academy of Physician Associate Educators and an honorary lecturer in the Division of Clinical Associates, Department of Family Medicine and Primary Care, Faculty of Health Sciences, at the University of the Witwatersrand Johannesburg (South Africa). The authors have disclosed no potential conflicts of interest, financial or otherwise.
Objective: Physician associates/assistants (PAs) and their equivalents offer a solution to the supply and demand crisis to alleviate global healthcare needs. This study investigated how PA and PA equivalents address global healthcare needs across different healthcare systems, revealing recommendations for their use. The study also sought to catalog the global healthcare needs that PAs and equivalents are successfully alleviating, the roles in which they function, and the barriers facing implementation.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFComparison of the Huntington's Disease like 2 and Huntington's Disease Clinical Phenotypes.
Mov Disord Clin Pract
April 2019
Division of Human Genetics National Health Laboratory Service and School of Pathology, Faculty of Health Sciences, The University of the Witwatersrand Johannesburg South Africa.
Background: Huntington's disease like 2 (HDL2) is the most common Huntington's disease (HD) phenocopy in many countries and described as the phenocopy with the greatest resemblance to HD. The current clinical description of HDL2 is based on retrospective data. It is unknown whether HDL2 has clinical features that distinguish it from HD.
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