Student Doctor Network Forums - View Single Post - Dermatologists Will Be Targeted in Healthcare Reform

Member 130457 · 04-13-2012, 09:07 AM

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Originally Posted by DermViser

When you have academic allopathic dermatology residency programs that actively hire Nurse Practioners (who practice independently) and PAs (where a physician doesn't have to even be in the room, just in vicinity) on faculty, then we really shouldn't be surprised. This along with our inability, as physicians, to actively lobby unlike other healthcare groups, this should not be a huge surprise.

http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showthread.php?t=718880

http://www.nadnp.net/index.html

http://health.usf.edu/nocms/nursing/...e_spring12.pdf (Page 11)

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/m...g=content;col1

As a resident at USF I should help clear up a misconception here on SDN. The dermatology nursing BS that's going on at USF has NOTHING to do with the Dermatology department. The college of nursing, obviously, is indepedent of our department. The DNP "program" that they started is completely through the nursing school. They work with a private dermatologist not affiliated at all with the Dermatology department. I can assure your our the chairman of our Dermatology Dept has actively campaigned against this program.

If you don't think this may happen at your institution your are wrong. All it takes is an aggressive nursing dean and these programs will start to crop up everywhere.