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This is ridiculous. Anyone that has worked for a couple of hours with heart or lung patients knows that they have problems that are not just restricted to those systems. This website advocates advanced practice RTs to function as APPs in cardiology and pulmonology but you don't take a specialist technician in one area and then train them with more specialist education to be an advanced practice provider. You need to go to a general medical education program and learn everything from the ground up. And that path already exists for them...its called PA school. RTs are welcome to apply and their experience will be seen as valuable. Its absolutely insane to think that we need yet another category of "provider" to further muddy everything. 

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I was an RT prior to PA school. I have done AS-MS in RT prior to PA school and can assure you that PA education is vastly more comprehensive and I would not trust a RT as an APP- there's currently only one school in the country that has a curriculum that is accredited without state licensing. If you review the curriculum, they're essentially saying "Be a pulmonary PA, but with the education of an abridged NP program." 

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1 hour ago, rtPA20 said:

I was an RT prior to PA school. I have done AS-MS in RT prior to PA school and can assure you that PA education is vastly more comprehensive and I would not trust a RT as an APP- there's currently only one school in the country that has a curriculum that is accredited without state licensing. If you review the curriculum, they're essentially saying "Be a pulmonary PA, but with the education of an abridged NP program." 

People who know both realms make the best critics.  My outpatient IM preceptor was a really nice guy, but he, as a PT prior to DO school, went on a bit of a rant when he got a voicemail from a DPT who introduced himself as Dr. so-and-so. 🙂

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