Physician Assistant

The Physician Assistant is a versatile and future-oriented profession in healthcare with interdisciplinary competence at the interface between medical services, nursing and management.

The healthcare system in Germany is changing and is facing major challenges, not least due to the shortage of skilled workers in the medical and nursing professions.

Doctors need relief from routine work, both medical and bureaucratic. The Physician Assistant, as a link between doctors and nursing staff as well as patients. He provides valuable assistance in maintaining good medical patient care and supporting the medical staff in routine tasks. It gives them more freedom for their priority activities, and at the same time, their involvement can increase the efficiency of hospital processes and make an important contribution to quality assurance

Physician Assistant is the only specialist magazine in German-speaking countries on the subject of medical assistance. It imparts medical skills from various specialist disciplines in the area of ​​acute medical and rehabilitation care. This includes contributions to the delegable medical treatment services as well as organization, administration and documentation:

Care processes in medicine

Medical specialties

Knowledge and self-management

Clinical processes

Individual and interdisciplinary emergency management

The magazine section briefly and concisely reports on current events and political decisions.

The training magazine sees itself as a forum for aspiring and current Physician Assistants. It is also aimed at anyone who is interested in further information about responsible work in patient care. While the Physician Assistant is still one of the young healthcare professions in Germany, it has long been an indispensable part of the healthcare system in many countries such as the USA, Great Britain and the Netherlands.

The training, further education and training magazine is published by the German Society for Physician Assistants e. V. (DGPA).

Physician Assistants work in hospitals, polyclinics, day clinics, rehabilitation clinics, medical centers, doctor's offices, medical care centers. Their fields of application can be found in both outpatient and inpatient care, e.g. in emergency rooms, the departments of surgery, internal medicine, anesthesia, intensive care medicine, cardiology, diabetology, angiology, neurology.

The activities of the PA include, for example:

Preparation of the initial medical history

Formulation of suspected diagnoses

Physical examinations

Blood draws

Carrying out small procedures

Assistance with surgical procedures

Documentations

organizational activities

administrative activities

Patient advice

Creating individual treatment plans

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