An economics-driven approach to US health care provider supply and demand could produce the most efficient workforce model.

The author shares some tips on how to make each patient visit more effective and more productive for both patients and PAs.

A physician assistant considers the items that would describe this point in the history of the PA profession to future generations.

Inspired by a book on leadership, the author reflects on physician assistants' responsibility and ability to be leaders.

After reading the online comments on one of her editorials, the author wonders: What has happened to our ability to converse with each other respectfully on topics about which we disagree?

Skilled communication is especially critical during conversations with children and their families about life-threatening and terminal conditions. How can E.B. White's classic children tale make you a better communicator?

The author explores what happens as the roles of medical professional and daughter coincide when her elderly father is hospitalized with pneumonia.

Such a congress could foster the role of physician assistants, explore innovations in the education of PAs, and much else besides.

The PEDC provides an overview of the impending changes in continuing medical education and explains how PAs can benefit from them.

Gaps in our research into the characteristics of the PA profession diminish our effectiveness as advocates for the profession in the legislative and regulatory arenas.

The AAPA urges physician assistants to help build the PA profession's advocacy efforts and influence on Capitol Hill to a higher level.

A PA participating in a South Australian trial reflects on her experience and the future of the PA profession in Australia.

The author reflects on the pain and confusion her family experienced watching her sister struggle with frontotemporal dementia.

The art and science of medicine that serves patients' best interest is defended against the overwhelming need to avoid malpractice lawsuits.

This physician assistant learns a valuable lesson on how difficult it can be to describe pain when she becomes a patient with acute abdominal pain.