scholarly journals An Expanded Role for the Medical Assistant in Primary Care: Evaluating a Training Pilot

2021 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marlaine Gray
Keyword(s):  
Primary Care ◽  
Medical Assistant

scholarly journals A Medical Assistant-Based Program to Promote Healthy Behaviors in Primary Care

2009 ◽  
Vol 7 (6) ◽  
pp. 504-512 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. L. Ferrer ◽  
P. Mody-Bailey ◽  
C. R. Jaen ◽  
S. Gott ◽  
S. Araujo
Keyword(s):  
Primary Care ◽  
Medical Assistant ◽  
Healthy Behaviors

scholarly journals Primary Care 2.0: A Prospective Evaluation of a Novel Model of Advanced Team Care With Expanded Medical Assistant Support

2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (5) ◽  
pp. 411-418
Author(s):  
Jonathan G. Shaw ◽  
Marcy Winget ◽  
Cati Brown-Johnson ◽  
Timothy Seay-Morrison ◽  
Donn W. Garvert ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Primary Care ◽  
Prospective Evaluation ◽  
Medical Assistant ◽  
Team Care ◽  
Novel Model

Improving colon cancer screening rates in primary care: a pilot study emphasising the role of the medical assistant

2009 ◽  
Vol 18 (5) ◽  
pp. 355-359 ◽  
Author(s):  
A N Baker ◽  
M Parsons ◽  
S M Donnelly ◽  
L Johnson ◽  
J Day ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Primary Care ◽  
Colon Cancer ◽  
Cancer Screening ◽  
Pilot Study ◽  
Colon Cancer Screening ◽  
Medical Assistant

Team-Based Primary Care: The Medical Assistant Perspective

2016 ◽  
Vol 2016 (1) ◽  
pp. 15265 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bethany Sheridan ◽  
Alyna T Chien ◽  
Antoinette S Peters ◽  
Meredith Rosenthal ◽  
Joanna Veazey Brooks ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Primary Care ◽  
Medical Assistant

Focusing on the Role of a Medical Assistant in a Team-based Weight-counseling Project in Primary Care

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. e185-e190
Author(s):  
Maura Moran Brain ◽  
Jennifer Hackel ◽  
Eileen M. Stuart-Shor ◽  
Joanne Dalton
Keyword(s):  
Primary Care ◽  
Medical Assistant

Medical Assistant–Based Care Management for High-Risk Patients in Small Primary Care Practices

2016 ◽  
Vol 164 (5) ◽  
pp. 323 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tobias Freund ◽  
Frank Peters-Klimm ◽  
Cynthia M. Boyd ◽  
Cornelia Mahler ◽  
Jochen Gensichen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Primary Care ◽  
High Risk ◽  
Care Management ◽  
Medical Assistant ◽  
High Risk Patients ◽  
Small Primary ◽  
Risk Patients ◽  
Care Practices ◽  
Primary Care Practices

Fool’s Gold: Psychologists Using Disingenuous Reasoning to Mislead Legislatures into Granting Psychologists Prescriptive Authority

2003 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 489-524
Author(s):  
Brent Pollitt
Keyword(s):  
Primary Care ◽  
Mental Illness ◽  
Nurse Practitioners ◽  
Primary Care Physicians ◽  
American Psychological Association ◽  
The United States ◽  
Psychotropic Medications ◽  
American Psychological ◽  
Training Requirements ◽  
Prescriptive Authority

Mental illness is a serious problem in the United States. Based on “current epidemiological estimates, at least one in five people has a diagnosable mental disorder during the course of a year.” Fortunately, many of these disorders respond positively to psychotropic medications. While psychiatrists write some of the prescriptions for psychotropic medications, primary care physicians write more of them. State legislatures, seeking to expand patient access to pharmacological treatment, granted physician assistants and nurse practitioners prescriptive authority for psychotropic medications. Over the past decade other groups have gained some form of prescriptive authority. Currently, psychologists comprise the primary group seeking prescriptive authority for psychotropic medications.The American Society for the Advancement of Pharmacotherapy (“ASAP”), a division of the American Psychological Association (“APA”), spearheads the drive for psychologists to gain prescriptive authority. The American Psychological Association offers five main reasons why legislatures should grant psychologists this privilege: 1) psychologists’ education and clinical training better qualify them to diagnose and treat mental illness in comparison with primary care physicians; 2) the Department of Defense Psychopharmacology Demonstration Project (“PDP”) demonstrated non-physician psychologists can prescribe psychotropic medications safely; 3) the recommended post-doctoral training requirements adequately prepare psychologists to prescribe safely psychotropic medications; 4) this privilege will increase availability of mental healthcare services, especially in rural areas; and 5) this privilege will result in an overall reduction in medical expenses, because patients will visit only one healthcare provider instead of two–one for psychotherapy and one for medication.

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