Oren Berkowitz is a senior lecturer in the Department of Health Systems Management at Ariel University in Ariel, Israel. Rina Maoz-Breuer is a research associate in the Smokler Center for Health Policy Research at the Myers-JDC-Brookdale Institute in Jerusalem, Israel. Eran Tal-Or is director of the ED at Baruch Padeh Medical Center in Poriya, Israel. Rachel Nissanholtz-Gannot is chair of the Department of Health Systems Management at Ariel University and a research scholar in the Smokler Center for Health Policy Research at the Myers-JDC-Brookdale Institute. This study was funded by the Israel Ministry of Health. In addition, Dr. Berkowitz received partial funding for his faculty position by the Israel Ministry of Integration, Center for Absorption in Science. The authors have disclosed no other potential conflicts of interest, financial or otherwise.
JAAPA. 2021 Jan 1;34(1):39-44. doi: 10.1097/01.JAA.0000723936.22396.08.
Physician assistants (PA) began training in Israeli EDs in 2016. Physician perspectives were measured to evaluate the clinical contributions of PA students.
Investigators surveyed members of the Israeli Association of Emergency Medicine Physicians in 2017 to rate whether PA students were helpful in patient care and to explore perceptions about PA students.
Those working with a PA student felt they were helpful to very helpful in all of the clinical tasks measured. The majority (85%) of other physicians wanted to work with a PA student in the future. Ordering medications, administering IV fluid therapy, and suturing accounted for 60% of the tasks that physicians wanted to add to PA scope of practice.
PA students were helpful in the ED and were meeting expectations for clinical contributions. Most physicians would like to work with PAs and they would like to see PAs increase their scope of practice.
医师助理（PA）于 2016 年开始在以色列急诊科接受培训。为评估 PA 学生的临床贡献，测量了医师的观点。
研究人员于 2017 年调查了以色列急诊医师协会的成员，以评估 PA 学生在患者护理方面是否有帮助，并探讨他们对 PA 学生的看法。
与 PA 学生一起工作的医生认为他们在所有测量的临床任务中都有帮助。大多数（85%）其他医生希望将来与 PA 学生一起工作。开处方、进行静脉输液治疗和缝合占医生希望添加到 PA 实践范围内的任务的 60%。
PA 学生在急诊科很有帮助，并且达到了临床贡献的预期。大多数医生希望与 PA 合作，他们希望看到 PA 扩大其执业范围。
