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Hello all, Anybody know if we can use uptodate CME towards the 'specialty specific' CME requirements for the CAQ? I'm in EM and all of my uptodate searches are EM specific so I'd imagine it would be okay...? I've tried searching the NCCPA website and googling without success. Any help is appreciated~ -SN

@EMEDPA have you ever been in a group that is structured like this? I'm curious what your thoughts are on this...

Hello all! Do any of you have experience with an EM group listing APPs as salaried employees? How did it go for you? Positives / negatives / challenges? Any experience would be greatly appreciated! Best, SN

I have been told by NP colleagues that the courses added to get NPs to DNPs are academic courses, research based, etc. They are not clinical courses to get a doctorate level clinical education, which would be that of MDs/DOs. They can call themselves doctors in an academic environment all they want, but don't think they should be allowed to call themselves doctors in a clinical setting to patients.

Just a follow up for those researching later who come across this thread. I did a deep dive, reached out to multiple brokers who all spoke with claims specialists / underwriters from the big disability insurance companies. Not one of them has in writing any specialty specific language for PAs. @ventana, this included Guardian - they also confirmed that PAs wouldn't qualify for specialty specific like physicians do. I'm sure there is a lot of confusion out there because insurance agents/brokers have frequently been telling me that it would be specialty specific for us, but when I get to the

@Cideous We were told that people individually submit to the state for unemployment on a week by week basis, so they would just submit for these two weeks, then go back to work for second two weeks, rinse and repeat. But since we are paid on a monthly basis I could see how it might get confusing.

@greenmood, For those with the rolling 2 week furloughs, are they cycling between working 2 weeks and furlough 2 weeks? Or just keeping the furloughed employees as is and extending every 2 weeks until volumes go back to normal? Did the way I framed my question make sense? It is admittedly a confusing situation.

Hey all, Our EM group is in the not-so-unique situation of having lower volumes and cut hours, and our group is starting with a "voluntary furlough" plan. They were hoping to get volunteers for 2 months at a time, but after discussing with some colleagues, we were wondering if we could do it differently. I'm curious if anyone out there has heard of APPs doing 1 or 2 week furloughs, while still working some of your shifts on the other half of the month? This would make the pay while on a "furlough month" quite a bit closer to normal pay, while still decreasing the number of APP hours ou

@EMEDPA Thanks for the reply, E. Is your policy specific to emergency medicine? Which company did you go with? @GetMeOuttaThisMess That was what I was worried about, but I don't understand how they can bold face lie to me and say that it is specialty specific for PAs as well. Is there not any company out there who can make a specialty specific PA disability contract?

Hey gang, Any of you have experience with long term disability insurance as it applies to PAs? Specifically with regards to the own occupation portion of it that is a key part to physicians since it is specialty specific. If for whatever reason an EM doc couldn't work in EM (say, lost function in a hand), they would still be paid their disability benefit even if they could work and did work later in urgent care. I have been talking with reps and they all tell me that the specialty specific own occ would apply to PAs as well, but I've also read online that some of these insurance broker

Add me to the list of folks looking for short term work in the interim until things get back to normal. PM me if you guys hear of anything!

So true. Anybody know of more that we could read about these types of situations. Liability during "times of crisis". I wonder if things blow up in our ED if we should be documenting such in each patient record?

As others have mentioned in the forum, my ED hours have been cut with our volumes low as everyone stays at home. I looked into that other travel PA/NP gig from NYC that was posted here and there were all sorts of red flags with a very last minute deployment. It did however open my eyes up that these types of opportunities do exist for us as well, and made me realize I'm not too familiar with the things I should be looking out for before considering these types of positions. I was hoping to pick the brains of the collective forums mind, especially those of you who have done travel / locums a

Any other PAs follow the FIRE (financial independence, retire early) path? I'm planning my exit strategy from the beginning of my career haha. The wife and I both have jobs making good money, we have been working and living with low expenses while investing the difference for 3 years now. If our projections are correct, we should be able to have flexibility to drop to part time (EM around 4-6 shifts per month!) within 4-5 years from now just to cover our living expenses with the part time work, while the nest egg investments will grow huge with compound interest on its own over the ye

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