Annotated Bibliography for Physician Assistants

Annotated Bibliography for Physician Assistants

Current issues

Cawley, James F. October 2002. The Profession in 2002 and Beyond. Journal of the American Academy of Physician Assistants 15(10): 7-15. [Online, accessed july 31, 2012]

Available at: http://www.jaapa.com/issues/j20021001/articles/cawley1002.html.

This article reviews the factors that have brought PAs to their present position and examines the trends that may shape the future.

Cawley, James F. August 2005. PA Supply and Demand. Journal of the American Academy of Physician Assistants 18(8): 11-12. [Online, accessed July 31, 2012]

Available at: http://jaapa.com/issues/j20050801/articles/guestedit0805.htm.

In this editorial, it is analyze whether we require more physician assistants in the work force of health care for the future or not also considering the current major issues associated with the physicians.

Dehn, Richard W., and James F. Cawley. November 2000. Looking Into Tomorrow. Health Workforce Issues Confronting Physician Assistants. Journal of the American Academy of Physician Assistants 13(11): 29. [Online, access July 31, 2012]

Available at: http://www.jaapa.com/issues/j20001101/articles/workforce.html.

In this article, the authors review and discusses, the workforce data on physicians and nurse practitioners, projections of the number of these clinicians who will be trained in the future. They also analyzes on the data that describe the past 11 years of PA education and the data, which address the experience of recent graduates of PA education programs who have sought employment.

EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES

Opacic, Deborah A. 2003. The relationship between self-efficacy and student physician assistant clinical performance. Journal of Allied Health 32(3): 158-66.

The purpose of this study was to examine the analytical relationship between achievement expectations, student self-efficacy beliefs, subsequent clinical performance and perceived outcome values.

Whitman, Neal, and William Wilson. 2002. Evaluation of a Model Clinical Therapeutics Curriculum for Physician Assistant and Nurse Practitioner Education in the United States. Pharmacy Education 1(3): 141-44.

This article addresses the findings of a consortium formed to construct a clinical therapeutic model curriculum in response to the “broadly increased prescription privileges of physician assistants and nurse practitioners in the United States, and the need for training programs to effectively teach and document the competencies of their students in clinical therapeutics.

Professional Associations

American Academy of Physician Assistants (AAPA), Division of Data Services and Statistics. January 2004. Trends in the physician assistant profession 1991-2003. Alexandria, VA: AAPA. [Online, accessed July 31, 2012]

Available at: http://www.aapa.org/research/91-03trends-report.pdf.

This document accompanies and describes a set of charts depicting trends in the PA profession and provides some insight as to where the profession is ...