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  Do PAs need advanced degrees?
| | | Daemen College is enrolling the first NP Doctorate class for this Fall. This begs to bring up the much heated debate over whether or not PAs will also need to pursue advanced degrees to keep up with our "peer" NP providers.
Many PAs have a Bachelor's Degree and have been in practice for many years. Getting an advanced degree such as a Masters or PHD will most likely not affect the way we work, what we do or even how much we get paid. In fact, several PAs have voiced concern that advanced degrees will not only cost big dollars (and time) but will in essence, make us overqualified for a job we already do.
We would like to get as much feedback on this topic from PAs and students. How do you see it? What do you think will happen if PAs as a profession do not pursue PHDs and NP's continue to do so? Will not getting advanced degrees make our PA profession appear as "less" and possibly cause us to become antiquated as providers? Do we really need PHDs to practice and if not, how do we make sure the public knows that our level of continuing education keeps us current?
Please log onto the WNYPAA website and click on "Forums" right below Member Access. Post your thoughts (either way) and let's get this discussion going!
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3 Reasons Why Patients and MDs Can’t Afford to Ignore PAs
1) Prescribing authority - PAs write more than 225 million prescriptions a year. - PAs have prescriptive privileges in 50 states, of which 46 allow for prescription of controlled substances
2) PAs play a crucial role in patient care - PAs provide more than 183 million patient visits a year
- PAs make hundreds of millions of OTC recommendations a year
- Many PAs practice in medically underserved areas (rural and inner city)
3) PAs are an increasingly important part of the healthcare team - The PA profession has grown from a handful of graduates in the 1960’s to more than 80,000 in clinical practice today
- 4,600 PA students graduate every year from 141 PA Schools
- 45% of PAs work in primary care
- 25% of PAs work in surgery and surgical specialties
- PAs are often the front-line in patient care and may be the sole health care provider in a community
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