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The road to Physician Assistant certificate

Some may think of Physician Assistant’s profession as just another job, while others have never heard of this career. Physician Assistant or PA is relatively new profession. It was established in the late 1960’s after the Vietnam War. During that time there were a lot of experienced Navy corpsmen coming home from the war. Navy corpsmen are Navy medics who serve with the Marines. Corpsman gained an extensive amount of combat medicine. They cared for hundreds of wounded changing their bandages, administering medications, performing minor surgical procedures, and numerous life-saving procedures. Corpsmen had no equivalent job in the civilian life, so the Physician Assistant profession was developed.

Today, those who wish to apply to PA program don’t have to be Navy corpsmen, however medical experience is a must. Usually, PA programs like their applicants to have at least two years of relevant medical background. What that means is someone who has been working as a medical assistant, a nurse, paramedic, respiratory therapists, and such. Volunteering, medical billing, coding, office type of work is not considered to be relevant medical experience. They look for people with patient hands on type of experience.

In addition to experience, a potential applicant must be in good academic standing. There are prerequisite classes which must be completed before application. Each program is a little different, but usually they want Anatomy and Physiology, English, Biology, Microbiology, and Chemistry. Most programs require a Bachelors degree. There are a few left that don’t, but soon they all will require some sort of Bachelors degree.

Once you have those things completed, the hardest thing is application process itself. It’s the hardest process because now you have to compete with five hundred other applicants for roughly 50 seats in the class. So your application has to be stellar! It starts with the personal statement.
Your personal statement is what separates you from the others. Those who apply have a high GPA and extensive medical background, but only one person can stand out with a personal narrative about themselves and why they want to be a Physician Assistant. Pay close attention to the questions asked, and do lots of research and proofreading before you submit your application.

The second hardest thing is the interview. If you were invited to the interview then there is something in your application that made you worthy of PA profession. Now, selection committee wants to meet you in person and see if you would make a good PA. They will ask you questions, personal questions sometimes to find out about your character. Think about it, no one wants a money hungry provider overcharging patients. When interviewers are asking you questions, they are asking them self only one question, “Would I want this person to take care of me and my family?” After you get accepted, you face two more challenges.

First is two years of intensive studies. Physician Assistant school is designed exactly like a medical school that doctors go through, only it’s compressed into two and a half years instead of four.
The last challenge is the certifying exam. It is composed of 600 questions. It’s a little shorter then doctors have to take which is 800 questions. When that hurdle has been accomplished, you are now a licensed practicing PA.

As anyone can see the road to becoming a certified Physician Assistant isn’t an easy one. It requires lots of experience and college education just to be able to apply to PA program. Than once in the program two years of intensive studying follows. It takes a strong moral character, lots of dedication, and a good heart to become a Physician Assistant.

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A Living Will is a legal document addressing only deathbed considerations; a client unilaterally declares his/her desire that life-prolonging measures be discontinued when there is no hope of ultimate recovery.

On the other hand, people use a Durable Power of Attorney for Health Care to appoint someone to make all healthcare decisions, limited by certain elections regarding deathbed issues.

The client must be at least 18 years old and mentally competent at the time he/she executes either document but incompetent to participate in the decision-making process when either is implemented. It is important to remember that both documents are only applicable if the client is incompetent.

Under the a Living Will, a client declares that if he/she is certified to have an incurable, terminal injury/illness and/or to be permanently unconscious by two examining physicians (including the client’s attending physician), that artificial life-support systems be withheld or disconnected. The client may also elect to discontinue artificial nutrition and hydration (intravenous feeding) by so designating on the form. (Find more information at: legalhelper.net/living-will.aspx)

Under the Health Care Power of Attorney, the client makes three separate and independent elections authorizing the agent:

1. To direct disconnection of artificial life-support systems in the event of terminal illness;

2. To direct disconnection of artificial life-support systems in the event of irreversible coma; and

3. To direct discontinuation of artificial nutrition and hydration.

In addition, the Health Care Power of Attorney form provides a space for the client to set forth any specific medical, religious or other desires concerning his/her health care. The client may also use this section as a backup source for organ donation. (Find more information at: legalhelper.net/power-of-attorney.aspx)

Both documents are signed in front of two witnesses and a notary public or a justice of the peace who acknowledges the client’s signature. The witnesses to a Living Will are sworn by the notary public/justice of the peace and indicate that the client is at least 18 years of age and signed the instrument as a free and voluntary act.

The Living Will witnesses may not be the client’s spouse, attending physician, heirs-at-law or person with claims against the client’s estate.

The Health Care Power of Attorney witnesses may not be the designated agent, the client, spouse or heir or person entitled to any portion of the client’s estate upon death under Will, Trust or operation of law.

People are frequently confused as to why both a Living Will and Health Care Power of Attorney are necessary or appropriate. The Living Will is helpful as a backup document: In the event that the client enters an irreversible coma and the health care agents designated in the Health Care Power of Attorney are deceased or unloadable, the Living Will sets forth the desires of the client concerning his/her death-bed treatment which may be followed by attending physicians. The law provides that to the extent that a Durable Power of Attorney conflicts with a Living Will, the Health Care Power of Attorney controls. Copies of both the Durable Power of Attorney for Health Care and the Living Will are forwarded to the client’s primary care physician for inclusion in medical records.

Both documents are revocable through normal revocation procedures.

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About The Author

James Wood is a free-lance writer on family issues; his main goal is to help people during their complicated period of life, to find a right legal solution in regards to family relationship.

Website: LegalHelper.net (http://www.legalhelper.net/power-of-attorney.aspx).

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