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Physician Assistant Education in California - CA
By an allied health world contributing writer
Published: January 8th, 2010
California physician assistants will give physical exams, order lab tests, make diagnoses, gather medical histories, interview patients, and can prescribe the needed treatment. In addition, they will also perform therapeutic procedures like administering immunizations and injections, suturing minor wounds, applying splints and removing of casts. Some of the routine lab procedures they may be responsible for are, taking cultures, reading skin tests, drawing and examining blood, which ultimately affords the doctor more time to treat patients that require more serious medical attention.
There are many training and educational programs offered by physician assistant schools in California or the physician assistant university in California that are also approved by the Allied Health Education and Accreditation of the American Medical Association. Currently there are approximately 18 to 20 committee approved training programs in the state of California.
Continuing Education for Physician Assistants in California
California students must continue with their education in order to keep the NCCPA certification for the length of your professional career. It requires 100 hours of medical education every two years. Additionally, re-certification will take place every six years. If these regulations are not followed in detail, then physician assistants will have to take an intense certification test.
Through campus based and online programs, aspiring Physician Assistants in Los Angeles, San Diego, San Jose and San Francisco, California may be able to prepare themselves for the possibility of employment in some of the largest hospitals and healthcare facilities in the state including Laguna Honda Hospital, Community Regional Medical Center, L.A. County & USC Medical Center, and Huntington Hospital.