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| Foreword | |
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| Preface | |
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| Contributing Authors | |
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| An Introduction to the Profession | |
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| Changing Healthcare Delivery Systems | |
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| The US Health System | |
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| Measures of Health Care | |
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| Stakeholders | |
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| Demographics of the Physician Assistant Profession | |
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| Growing Physician Assistant Specialization | |
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| International Development | |
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| Physician Assistant Economics | |
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| Practice Economics and Fundamentals | |
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| The Surgical PA | |
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| Generational Factors | |
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| Baby Boomers | |
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| Generation X | |
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| Generation Y (Millennial) | |
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| Precepting Physician Assistant Students | |
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| An Introduction to Physician Assistant Education | |
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| Competency-Based Training | |
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| Clinical Experience and/or Degrees | |
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| Administrative Structure | |
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| Admissions | |
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| Didactic Education | |
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| Medicine and Patient Care | |
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| Behavioral and Social Sciences | |
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| Information Literacy | |
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| Health Policy | |
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| Ethics | |
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| Physician Assistant Professional Issues | |
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| Clinical Rotations | |
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| New Content | |
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| Licensing and Credentialing | |
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| The Clinical Experience | |
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| Precepting Requirements, Guidelines, and Responsibilities | |
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| Clinical Teaching Guidelines | |
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| Planning | |
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| Orientation | |
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| Educational Objectives | |
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| Oversight | |
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| Teaching | |
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| Student Evaluation | |
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| Critical Thinking | |
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| Pitfalls in Clinical Teaching | |
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| Student Responsibilities and Guidelines | |
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| Student Responsibilities to the Preceptor, the Site, and the Patients | |
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| Students' Responsibilities to the Program | |
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| Students' Responsibilities to Themselves | |
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| Student Clinical Evaluations | |
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| Professional Behavior | |
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| Component Parts of Professionalism | |
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| Supervising Physician Assistants | |
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| Hiring a Physician Assistant | |
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| Assessment of the Organization/Practice Culture | |
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| Evaluation of Billing/Productivity Systems | |
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| Job Description | |
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| Supervision and Quality Assurance | |
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| Employment Status | |
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| Compensation Plan | |
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| Physician Assistant Practice Act and Law | |
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| Employment Contract | |
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| Finding a Physician Assistant and Making the Offer | |
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| Legal Aspects of Clinical Supervision | |
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| Background and Basic Principles | |
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| Scope of Practice | |
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| Physician Assistants as Agents of the Physician | |
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| Limits on Numbers of Physician | |
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| Assistants Supervised | |
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| The Supervising Physician | |
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| Physician Liability | |
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| Common Sense Supervision | |
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| Hospital Credentialing and Privileging | |
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| Ethical Issues in Supervision | |
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| Medical Liability and Physician Assistants | |
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| Specific Practice Settings | |
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| Ambulatory Care and Emergency Medicine | |
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| Hospital-Based Practice | |
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| Assisted Living/Nursing Home Practice | |
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| Geographically Remote Practice Site | |
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| Additional Resources | |
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| Sample Student Evaluation Instruments for Clinical Education | |
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| Index | |