SoCal_PA Posted September 27, 2014 Share Posted September 27, 2014 Physician Associate, Medical Practitioner, Not an Assistant, etc? Any inside information? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderator LT_Oneal_PAC Posted September 28, 2014 Moderator Share Posted September 28, 2014 I feel that since enough vocal people have been placated with the AAPAs consolation prize of supporting the term "PA" over physician assistant, the name change movement has pretty much hit a rut. Just my opinion though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrwhite Posted September 28, 2014 Share Posted September 28, 2014 You knew what you were getting into when you joined a profession with the name 'assistant' in it. That being said, I was impressed when I was researching Yale's program and they're already calling PA's Physician Associate's: http://medicine.yale.edu/pa/. I think that would be the smartest way to go, seeing as a lot of people already know what a PA is, changing the 'A' would be smoothest. I think the change will start happening when something official is put out by PA organizations/societies at the top. Forcing that change and making people adapt is the only way to go I think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderator LT_Oneal_PAC Posted September 28, 2014 Moderator Share Posted September 28, 2014 You knew what you were getting into when you joined a profession with the name 'assistant' in it. That being said, I was impressed when I was researching Yale's program and they're already calling PA's Physician Associate's: http://medicine.yale.edu/pa/. I think that would be the smartest way to go, seeing as a lot of people already know what a PA is, changing the 'A' would be smoothest. I think the change will start happening when something official is put out by PA organizations/societies at the top. Forcing that change and making people adapt is the only way to go I think. Just because you join a profession while it is one way, doesn't mean you can't hope for certain aspects to change. Yale has always been physician associate since that is our original name. I think it will change when the younger millennial generation comes to replace the old guard, as they are statistically more likely to support the title change. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrwhite Posted September 28, 2014 Share Posted September 28, 2014 Why did they change it to assistant from associate? Associate is way better! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Paula Posted September 28, 2014 Share Posted September 28, 2014 AMA did not like the title. They thought we would be called doc. And we still are. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Paula Posted September 28, 2014 Share Posted September 28, 2014 You can read all about it on the PAHX site. AAPA endorsed the assistant title to avoid confusion. Biggest mistake they ever made. But I suppose they didn't have much power or say over anything PA related back then. There is an archived thread here on the history of the PA title. I believe it is Andersen who has written a nice summary of the history. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Paula Posted September 28, 2014 Share Posted September 28, 2014 Plus it's really gratifying to see the cover of the first PA journal publication. It was called Physician's Associate Journal. April 1971. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
discogenic Posted September 28, 2014 Share Posted September 28, 2014 While reading the Sunday paper this morning, I saw an ad from a regional hospital (of course the ad was full-page and full-color) introducing "Dr. Jane Doe, APN-C, a Board Certified Nurse Practitioner". "Dr. Doe specializes in...." "Schedule an appointment with Dr. Doe today..." So once it becomes routine to refer to NPs as "Dr. Doe", will the Assistant in Physician Assistant become even more glaring? I think yes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Paula Posted September 28, 2014 Share Posted September 28, 2014 Yup it will be more glaring. If a full page ad for a PA said meet Physician Associate Doe and schedule an appointment it would be accepted by the public. But meet assistant Doe would be different. Where are you...what state? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Paula Posted September 28, 2014 Share Posted September 28, 2014 P.S. Send the ad to AAPA and ask how do we compete with it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderator ventana Posted September 29, 2014 Moderator Share Posted September 29, 2014 P.S. Send the ad to AAPA and ask how do we compete with it? to all the naysayers on name change and terminal clinical doctorate degree I would ask the same question? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
henryd Posted April 22, 2015 Share Posted April 22, 2015 bump...really would be great especially for such instances http://www.physicianassistantforum.com/index.php?/topic/17255-physicians-assistant-best-job-of-2015/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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