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Adding to the Body of Research on the PA Field
on Partners in Practice
In the early 1970s and 80s, when the PA profession was in its infancy, there was a lot of research about this new option in healthcare careers. Fast forward 40 years, and the research has tapered off because of lack of funding, manpower, and because so many questions were answered in those early years of the field. What are the issues yet to be addressed about PA performance, clinical practice, and career trajectory? Jim Cawley, director of the PA/MPH program at The George Washington University in Washington, DC, talks with host Lisa Dandrea Lenell about the recent summit on PA research, why he believes continued research is important, and the research still missing from the knowledge base.
Lisa Dandrea Lenell is a physician assistant and the director of operations for an internal medicine practice in Illinois. She is passionate about bringing physician assistant and nurse practitioner issues into the spotlight, focusing on awareness and understanding of the professions. Mrs. Lenell is a graduate of the Physician Assistant Program at Midwestern University in Downers Grove, Illinois. She has continued her relationship with Midwestern University, working as adjunct faculty. She has published in the prestigious peer-reviewed medical journal Dermatologic Surgery and has been featured in several professional journals.
James F. Cawley is a professor of health care science and director of the PA/MPH program in the School of Medicine and Health Science at The George Washington University. He is also a Professor of Prevention and Community Health in the School of Public Health and Health Services at GWU. He has been in PA education for 34 years and has served on the faculty of the PA programs at The Johns Hopkins University, Yale University, and Stony Brook University. He has published extensively on aspects of the health work force. Cawley has authored more than 75 peer-reviewed papers in the biomedical literature on topics spanning the PA profession, the health workforce, preventive medicine, health promotion, and epidemiology. He is the author of Physician Assistants: Practice and Policy (FA Davis, 2009).
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