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Questions About Starting A New Residency In Emergency Medicine


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First, I apologize for any questions that may be obvious but the ARC-PA website was not completely clear on the answers to my questions.

 

Now, to the nuts and bolts. I am currently a PA-Applicant but I work as a medical scribe in an Emergency Department. I was speaking to my Assistant ED Director about his experience with any Emergency Medicine Residency trained/certified. Physician Assistants. He expressed interest in this and was curious how these programs were certified. I informed him that they must be certified by the ARC-PA but was unsure if there are standards, other than general ones, that are specific to the residency. For example, is there a list of procedures, quantity, services that the resident must undergo, rotate through, or or be exposed to? I apologize for any questions that may be found, but the ARC-PA PDF did not seem to be specialty specific. I understand that the potential program has to develop their own curriculum but what I was unsure of is if there are standards that are published that this curriculum must meet. Thanks in advance.

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First, I apologize for any questions that may be obvious but the ARC-PA website was not completely clear on the answers to my questions.

 

Now, to the nuts and bolts. I am currently a PA-Applicant but I work as a medical scribe in an Emergency Department. I was speaking to my Assistant ED Director about his experience with any Emergency Medicine Residency trained/certified. Physician Assistants. He expressed interest in this and was curious how these programs were certified. I informed him that they must be certified by the ARC-PA but was unsure if there are standards, other than general ones, that are specific to the residency. For example, is there a list of procedures, quantity, services that the resident must undergo, rotate through, or or be exposed to? I apologize for any questions that may be found, but the ARC-PA PDF did not seem to be specialty specific. I understand that the potential program has to develop their own curriculum but what I was unsure of is if there are standards that are published that this curriculum must meet. Thanks in advance.

The ARC-PA standards are essentially there to protect the students and to give some standards for administration of the program. There is a lot of debate about whether there should be post graduate PA programs. The ARC-PA came down in the middle. If you want to be recognized by ARC-PA then you have administrative standards you must adhere to. On the other hand there are no standards for any particular program as far as what you have to learn or any procedures you have to do. That minimum would soon become the standard. Most programs adopt some form of the physician residency standards or use a program shared by another program. There are enough resources out there if someone is interested.

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