Job Summary :

The Physician Assistant (PA) is responsible for practicing medicine with physician supervision including conducting examinations and writing prescriptions. Within physician physician assistant relationship, PAs exercise autonomy in medical decision making and provide a broad range of diagnostic and therapeutic services. May practice in several primary care areas including family medicine, internal medicine, pediatrics, and obstetrics/gynecology as well as surgery and surgical subspecialties. May include responsibility for education, research, and administrative services.

Responsibilities:

Conducts physical examinations, assesses health status, orders and interprets tests, prescribes medications, and treats illnesses including giving injections and suturing wounds

Consults with physicians as needed and refers to physicians for more complicated medical cases or cases that are not a routine part of a PA s scope ...