Could an MD get hired as an EM PA?

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File this under a crazy shower thought- could someone graduate medical school and then get hired in the ED as a PA? Sounds crazy but you'd get at least double the pay of residency and half the hours. Would be interested to hear the perspectives on this.

 

[EctopicFetus]

Yes. You can work in an mlp role. You would need 1 year of residency to get a medical license. Why you would what to do this I have no idea. But you need a license to practice and in medicine that means 1 year of residency.

 

[cyanide12345678]

I know someone who was forced to do this due to a disability and being out of the work force for 10 years. This person maintained their state license but when it came time to go back into the work force, he wasn't able to find any one willing to hire someone who had not worked for 10 years. He restarted in a PA/NP position for 12 months i think where he was required to work under supervision of an attending, until finally going back to being on their own as an attending.

 

[deleted109597]

Not really. You cannot be licensed in a role you didn't do the training in.
Does this mean someone won't pay you less to do a lesser role? Sure, it might happen. But it's in a weird area legally. Physicians can't be delegated positions apart from board action.

 

[betamale]

I mean, sure, but if you are licensed as a physician, you will held up to the same standard as a physician because of your title. Some states have special arrangements for something you are referring to. In Texas, unlicensed docs can work as surgical assistants where they can first assist. In Florida and New York, they have "house physicians" who are unlicensed docs but can work in a hospital under physician supervision to run codes, write H&PS, place orders. In Arkansas and Missouri, there are "assistant physicians" where unlicensed docs can work under physician supervision for 1 year then they become eligible for a license.


Here are examples:

Google Search

Resident, Interns, Fellows and House Physicians - Florida Board of Medicine

flboardofmedicine.gov

Medicine | Office of the Professions

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www.op.nysed.gov

Texas Medical Board

www.tmb.state.tx.us

 

[GonnaBeADoc2222]

Not really. You cannot be licensed in a role you didn't do the training in.
Does this mean someone won't pay you less to do a lesser role? Sure, it might happen. But it's in a weird area legally. Physicians can't be delegated positions apart from board action.

NPs do this all the time 😉

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