marilynpac Posted June 12, 2012 Share Posted June 12, 2012 Say it in eight words.... "physician assistants are very similar to nurse practitioners". They will understand that. We have a way to go b/f we reach the level of NPs........... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marilynpac Posted June 12, 2012 Share Posted June 12, 2012 Say it in eight words.... "physician assistants are very similar to nurse practitioners". They will understand that. We have a way to go b/f we reach the level of NPs........... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LIPPER Posted June 12, 2012 Share Posted June 12, 2012 "I'm Dr. Xxxx's Physician Assistant" Works like a charm every time. I've also used; "I'm Dr Xxxx's little guy" which gets a laugh confidence and presentation means a lot... Very rarely do I get pushback. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LIPPER Posted June 12, 2012 Share Posted June 12, 2012 "I'm Dr. Xxxx's Physician Assistant" Works like a charm every time. I've also used; "I'm Dr Xxxx's little guy" which gets a laugh confidence and presentation means a lot... Very rarely do I get pushback. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LIPPER Posted June 12, 2012 Share Posted June 12, 2012 "I'm Dr. Xxxx's Physician Assistant" Works like a charm every time. I've also used; "I'm Dr Xxxx's little guy" which gets a laugh confidence and presentation means a lot... Very rarely do I get pushback. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderator EMEDPA Posted June 12, 2012 Moderator Share Posted June 12, 2012 I never mention my relationship with physicians in the description of my job. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderator EMEDPA Posted June 12, 2012 Moderator Share Posted June 12, 2012 I never mention my relationship with physicians in the description of my job. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderator EMEDPA Posted June 12, 2012 Moderator Share Posted June 12, 2012 I never mention my relationship with physicians in the description of my job. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
physasst Posted June 12, 2012 Share Posted June 12, 2012 I never mention my relationship with physicians in the description of my job. Me neither.....I might say "I am a PA in xxxxxx specialty".....but I don't really care who the doc is.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
physasst Posted June 12, 2012 Share Posted June 12, 2012 I never mention my relationship with physicians in the description of my job. Me neither.....I might say "I am a PA in xxxxxx specialty".....but I don't really care who the doc is.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
physasst Posted June 12, 2012 Share Posted June 12, 2012 I never mention my relationship with physicians in the description of my job. Me neither.....I might say "I am a PA in xxxxxx specialty".....but I don't really care who the doc is.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andersenpa Posted June 12, 2012 Share Posted June 12, 2012 Yep we dropped the possessive a long time ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andersenpa Posted June 12, 2012 Share Posted June 12, 2012 Yep we dropped the possessive a long time ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andersenpa Posted June 12, 2012 Share Posted June 12, 2012 Yep we dropped the possessive a long time ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderator EMEDPA Posted June 12, 2012 Moderator Share Posted June 12, 2012 I have not seen several of my sp's in > 6 months. I don't think one of them even knows he is my sp as the doc of the day just signs all the pa charts and the sp of record is just a name in a file somewhere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderator EMEDPA Posted June 12, 2012 Moderator Share Posted June 12, 2012 I have not seen several of my sp's in > 6 months. I don't think one of them even knows he is my sp as the doc of the day just signs all the pa charts and the sp of record is just a name in a file somewhere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderator EMEDPA Posted June 12, 2012 Moderator Share Posted June 12, 2012 I have not seen several of my sp's in > 6 months. I don't think one of them even knows he is my sp as the doc of the day just signs all the pa charts and the sp of record is just a name in a file somewhere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Kemp Posted June 12, 2012 Share Posted June 12, 2012 "I'm Dr. Xxxx's Physician Assistant" Works like a charm every time. I've also used; "I'm Dr Xxxx's little guy" which gets a laugh confidence and presentation means a lot... Very rarely do I get pushback. Personally I'd never want to say something like that. Certainly if it works for you that's fine. But that kind of language seems to encourage the misunderstanding that you're a med tech or something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Kemp Posted June 12, 2012 Share Posted June 12, 2012 "I'm Dr. Xxxx's Physician Assistant" Works like a charm every time. I've also used; "I'm Dr Xxxx's little guy" which gets a laugh confidence and presentation means a lot... Very rarely do I get pushback. Personally I'd never want to say something like that. Certainly if it works for you that's fine. But that kind of language seems to encourage the misunderstanding that you're a med tech or something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Kemp Posted June 12, 2012 Share Posted June 12, 2012 "I'm Dr. Xxxx's Physician Assistant" Works like a charm every time. I've also used; "I'm Dr Xxxx's little guy" which gets a laugh confidence and presentation means a lot... Very rarely do I get pushback. Personally I'd never want to say something like that. Certainly if it works for you that's fine. But that kind of language seems to encourage the misunderstanding that you're a med tech or something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mktalon Posted June 12, 2012 Share Posted June 12, 2012 A lot of personal statements give good ideas about what a PA is. Something like this might clear things up: "A PA is somebody who likes to help people. But they only want to do it for a limited time during the day, which is good because PAs have much better shifts and hours than doctors do. In addition, because they don't really do much else, they have a ton of time to hang out in the room with patients to develop personal relationships with each one of them. Before becomming a PA they established a long history of experience by shadowing PAs." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mktalon Posted June 12, 2012 Share Posted June 12, 2012 A lot of personal statements give good ideas about what a PA is. Something like this might clear things up: "A PA is somebody who likes to help people. But they only want to do it for a limited time during the day, which is good because PAs have much better shifts and hours than doctors do. In addition, because they don't really do much else, they have a ton of time to hang out in the room with patients to develop personal relationships with each one of them. Before becomming a PA they established a long history of experience by shadowing PAs." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mktalon Posted June 12, 2012 Share Posted June 12, 2012 A lot of personal statements give good ideas about what a PA is. Something like this might clear things up: "A PA is somebody who likes to help people. But they only want to do it for a limited time during the day, which is good because PAs have much better shifts and hours than doctors do. In addition, because they don't really do much else, they have a ton of time to hang out in the room with patients to develop personal relationships with each one of them. Before becomming a PA they established a long history of experience by shadowing PAs." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderator EMEDPA Posted June 12, 2012 Moderator Share Posted June 12, 2012 Most excellent! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderator EMEDPA Posted June 12, 2012 Moderator Share Posted June 12, 2012 Most excellent! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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