Howard L W, Garman K A, McCann R E
University of Southern California Primary Care Physician Assistant Program, USA.
Public Health Rep. 1995 Nov-Dec;110(6):668-73.
A number of states have experimented with legislation that would allow unlicensed international medical graduates to become physician assistants. These attempts have failed. The authors conducted a pilot evaluation study in California in response to legislative efforts. They examined the medical knowledge of a group of unlicensed international medical graduates and compared their clinical skills with those of a control group of recent graduates from a physician assistant training program. The unlicensed international medical graduates were below standard in medical knowledge and clinical skills and failed to make critical diagnoses in the tests with standardized patients. The authors conclude that unlicensed international medical graduates need additional training to be incorporated into the U.S. health care system as physician assistants.
一些州已尝试通过立法，允许无执照的国际医学毕业生成为医师助理。这些尝试均以失败告终。作者针对这些立法举措在加利福尼亚州开展了一项试点评估研究。他们考查了一组无执照的国际医学毕业生的医学知识，并将其临床技能与医师助理培训项目近期毕业的对照组人员进行比较。这些无执照的国际医学毕业生在医学知识和临床技能方面未达标准，且在与标准化病人的测试中无法做出关键诊断。作者得出结论，无执照的国际医学毕业生需要接受额外培训，才能作为医师助理融入美国医疗体系。
