{"id":5971,"date":"2013-12-02T23:23:53","date_gmt":"2013-12-02T23:23:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/medex\/?p=5971"},"modified":"2013-12-02T23:23:53","modified_gmt":"2013-12-02T23:23:53","slug":"pas-and-the-aca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/medex\/magazine\/2013\/12\/02\/pas-and-the-aca\/","title":{"rendered":"PAs and the ACA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A recently published article in <i>Academic Medicine<\/i> examines the potential impact of the Affordable Care Act on large medical education programs, including the University of Washington. Entire sections address the critical importance of physician assistants in implementation of the ACA. It reads, in part:<\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cIn the Pacific Northwest, PAs play an important role in primary care and increasing access to health care in geographically remote communities. The availability of PAs, as well as of nurse practitioners, has helped stabilize the practice of small-town specialists who need help but cannot necessarily justify the costly employment of another physician.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/journals.lww.com\/academicmedicine\/Abstract\/2013\/12000\/Challenges_and_Opportunities_in_Building_a.23.aspx\"><strong>Read the abstract<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The full article can be obtained from Academic Medicine.<\/p>\n<p>Citation:\u00a0Allen SM, Ballweg RA, Cosgrove EM, et al. \u00a0Challenges and opportunities in building a sustainable rural primary care workforce in alignment with the Affordable Care Act: The WWAMI program as a case study. \u00a0Acad Med. \u00a02013;88(12):1862-1869.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recently published article in <i>Academic Medicine<\/i> examines the potential impact of the Affordable Care Act on large medical education programs, including the University of Washington. Entire sections address the critical importance of physician assistants in implementation of the ACA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medex-news"],"cp_meta_data":{"sidebars":["Right Only"],"children_pages":["None"],"importantlinks_menu":["None"],"featured_img":["No"],"landing_page":["Yes"]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/medex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/medex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/medex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/medex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/medex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/medex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5971\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/medex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/medex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/medex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}