Ethics and Professionalism: A Guide for the Physician Assistant ppt

[...]... Health and Science University Portland, Oregon Deborah E Kortyna, MMS, PA-C Assistant Professor Physician Assistant Program Chatham College Chatham, Pennsylvania Clara LaBoy, MS, PA-C Assistant Professor School of Physician Assistant Studies Pacific University Forest Grove, Oregon Mary Ann Laxen, MAB, PA-C Director and Associate Professor Physician Assistant Program University of North Dakota Grand Forks,... Clinical Assistant Professor Physician Assistant Program SUNY Downstate Medical Center Brooklyn, New York Courtney Cribbs Graduate Physician Assistant Program University of Findlay Findlay, Ohio Katherine M Erdman, MPAS, PA-C Assistant Director and Instructor Physician Assistant Program Baylor College of Medicine Houston, Texas Carl Fasser, BA, PA-C Director and Associate Professor Physician Assistant. .. European and American internal medicine organizations published The Charter on Medical Professionalism,” which presented a list of standards for professionalism that the authors think should be universally accepted.10 (Box 1-3) In May 2000, the American Academy of Physician Assistants (AAPA) adopted its Guidelines for Ethical Conduct for the Physician Assistant, which discusses the four main bioethical... student? PA Training Versus Physician Training: Impact on Ethical Development PA training is a fast track to medical practice It is also a fast track to the development of professionalism and ethically appropriate medical behavior There are advantages and disadvantages to this fast track approach The most obvious disadvantage is its short duration PAs have less time to learn the complex body of medical knowledge... Program Baylor College of Medicine Houston, Texas James Hammond, MA, PA-C Director Physician Assistant Program James Madison University Harrisonburg, Virginia Wanda Hancock, MHSA, RT(R)(T), PA-C Professor Emeritus Physician Assistant Program Medical University of South Carolina Charleston, South Carolina Pat Kenney-Moore, MS, PA-C Associate Director and Academic Coordinator Physician Assistant Program... provide appropriate medical care and supervisory expertise.41 Guidelines for Ethical Conduct for the Physician Assistant adhere to the dictum to “do no harm” (nonmaleficence), and the statement of values includes the promotion of the health, safety, and welfare of all human beings The values also include “respect [for] their professional relationship with physicians.”11 The Guidelines state that Physician. .. “transformative process of socialization,”32 and this process for the PA student is necessarily truncated PAs make up the difference in their initial years of clinical practice The most obvious advantage to the fast-track PA training is also its short duration The average PA program is 26 months The didactic year is usually only 12 months The training is all-consuming and intense, and students are typically... of the typical behavioral problems exhibited by students and faculty in any professional training program The authors state that civility is the foundation for professionalism, and they illustrate this with a diagram of a triangle, with civility at the base and professional behavior at the peak, representing a specialized and more refined type of behavior, but behavior that has civility as its foundation17... belongs For nurses and social workers, for example [could PAs be added?] the power and privileges of professionalism are far more tenuous than for physicians.” Shirley and Padgett may be referring to the “social prestige” of physicians, one of the structural attributes of professionalism alluded to by Hammer.17 Nurses and PAs may view physicians as taking advantage of their prestige in a way that borders... in the bioethics literature than in literature geared primarily for clinicians There are considerably fewer articles dealing with the ethical behavior of PAs than ones dealing with medical student and resident behavior For all practical purposes, the principles are the same, with medical students and residents facing the same challenges as those faced by PA students and practicing PAs Issues related . Care Mesa, Arizona Former Executive Director Arizona Medical Board and Arizona Regulatory Board of Physician Assistants Former Professor, Associate Dean. Care Mesa, Arizona Former Executive Director Arizona Medical Board and Arizona Regulatory Board of Physician Assistants Former Professor, Associate Dean