This article is a section of a longer paper on Direct Primary Care (DPC) that was introduced in an earlier piece -- Health Plan Rorschach Test: Direct Primary Care. The following excerpt from that ...

Allowing autonomy for advanced practice practitioners continues to be contested state by state. At the beginning of this year, the National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants ...

This document defines the Scope of Practice for the primary specialty of Medical Genetics. It serves as a revision of a 2008 American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics (ACMG) Policy Statement ...

As it stands, there is no statutory or centrally-backed guidance outlining how physician associates should work in general practice. Given the variety of potentially conflicting views, Eliza Parr ...

The U.S. health care system is at a critical juncture in health care workforce planning. The nation has a shortage of primary care physicians. Policy analysts have proposed expanding the supply and ...