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[Stank811]

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[secants]

Do you become an AA by doing a fellowship after PA school is it it a direct pathway after college?

 

[Dwindlin]

Do you become an AA by doing a fellowship after PA school is it it a direct pathway after college?

It is its own pathway.

 

[jwk]

Do you become an AA by doing a fellowship after PA school is it it a direct pathway after college?

AA's are an entirely separate profession than PA.

See www.anesthetist.org for more info or feel free to PM me.

 

[JLM]

AA's are an entirely separate profession than PA.

See www.anesthetist.org for more info or feel free to PM me.

Hey jwk,
I'm just curious - does the AAAA go recruit at large EMS meetings? I know a LOT of paramedics who went through pre-med undergrad and even took MCAT, but for whatever reason decided to pursue PA or nursing. I think a lot of these folks would be VERY interested in the AA profession if they knew about it. I preach the AA gospel whenever possible to my friends in EMS, and most have no clue that the profession exists. And they are typically thrilled at the idea of training in anesthesia without having to go through a nursing curriculum.

And if there was as much interest as I suspect, with a subsequent increase in demand, perhaps more schools would consider opening programs?

 

[deleted171991]

AA's are an entirely separate profession than PA.

See www.anesthetist.org for more info or feel free to PM me.

Why does the AAAA have a domain that's the synonym of (physician) anesthesiologist in Europe (and around the world)? Why does the ASA tolerate this? Why does it sound to me like another little AANA-type snake, waiting for the right moment to bite us?

 

[jwk]

Why does the AAAA have a domain that's the synonym of (physician) anesthesiologist in Europe (and around the world)? Why does the ASA tolerate this? Why does it sound to me like another little AANA-type snake, waiting for the right moment to bite us?

Besides being simple, short, and descriptive, the domain name makes it easier to find us on a web search. It's been like that since we've had a website. No evil intent or subliminal messages there. Now if we did "anaesthetist.org" you might have a point.

AA's have been around for 40 years - I've been one for 33 of those. Clearly there are those who will never be in favor of administration of anesthesia by non-physicians, and that's fine - but the AANA comparison is so far off base it's laughable.

 

[jwk]

Hey jwk,
I'm just curious - does the AAAA go recruit at large EMS meetings? I know a LOT of paramedics who went through pre-med undergrad and even took MCAT, but for whatever reason decided to pursue PA or nursing. I think a lot of these folks would be VERY interested in the AA profession if they knew about it. I preach the AA gospel whenever possible to my friends in EMS, and most have no clue that the profession exists. And they are typically thrilled at the idea of training in anesthesia without having to go through a nursing curriculum.

And if there was as much interest as I suspect, with a subsequent increase in demand, perhaps more schools would consider opening programs?

I'll PM you.

 

[deleted171991]

Clearly there are those who will never be in favor of administration of anesthesia by non-physicians, and that's fine - but the AANA comparison is so far off base it's laughable.

I used to think the same, until I saw that domain. Suddenly, I don't find my comparison laughable at all. It's almost as if the American association of IM nurse practitioners would have registered internist.org.

 

[Stank811]

I would never advocate for displacing a large group of people from their jobs but if you have to hire new providers into your ACT group….AA is the only way to go in the immediate future if available in your state. Don't understand why groups continue to hire CRNAs when the AANA continues to push for a collaborative arrangement model. In the collaborative model the hospital is going to pay you a couple extra hundred bucks a day to be available to put out fires as they test their new experiment….sounds like a great deal.

 

[jwk]

I used to think the same, until I saw that domain. Suddenly, I don't find my comparison laughable at all. It's almost as if the American association of IM nurse practitioners would have registered internist.org.

I can assure you that somehow linking that choice of domain name to the "anaesthetists" in Europe and trying to confuse someone, anyone, that it was analogous to a physician, never crossed anyone's mind. Although it's not exactly that much easier to spell, it is far shorter than anesthesiologistassistant.com. On top of that someone locked up all those types of domains many years ago and won't release them to us, otherwise we could consider changing it.

Not sure what else I can do to reassure you - if you knew us or worked with us, you would clearly understand nothing could be further from reality.

 

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