Medical assistant

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Physician assistant (English Physician Assistant ) is an academic health care profession . In a bachelor's degree course , the doctor's assistant acquires the formal requirements to independently carry out delegable activities that were previously reserved for the doctor . The doctor's assistant is responsible for performing simple treatments independently and assisting doctors with operations, among other things . This is to relieve the medical staff .

Education

In Germany is far from a university, SRH University of Health Sciences , and six colleges a course Physician Assistant offered: at the Steinbeis University Berlin , the Cooperative State University Baden-Wuerttemberg Karlsruhe , the European University of Applied Sciences EU FH in Cologne, Rheine and Rostock, the Carl Remigius Medical School , the Fliedner University of Applied Sciences Düsseldorf , the HSD University Döpfer in Cologne, the HSD Study Center Regensburg and the Plauen University of Cooperative Education . Training is also possible at the Eppendorf University Medical Center in Hamburg . A university entrance qualification is required for the course ; some providers are also only aimed at applicants from the healthcare sector who have several years of professional experience in the nursing or medical-technical field.

In 2007, the clinic operator Sana trained medical assistants in cooperation with the Steinbeis University in Berlin. Since the 2019/2020 winter semester, Medical School 11 Heidelberg (i.Gr.) has been offering activation courses for the "Physician Assistance" course in cooperation with the Bildungswerk der Baden-Württembergischen Wirtschaft eV.

Since 2020 there has been the academic training Bachelor “Physician Assistance” with a focus on “General Practitioner-Outpatient Medicine” as a part-time course for the first time at a state university of applied sciences: The Anhalt University of Applied Sciences in Köthen cooperates with the Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians in Saxony-Anhalt and the Family Doctors Association Saxony-Anhalt eV

International comparison

In the United States and the United Kingdom , the job description of the physician assistant, who performs operational tasks as a non-medical employee, has long been established. It served as a model for the German model.

In Australia, Health Workforce Australia began rolling out the role of physician assistant across the country in 2011. There was a PA program at James Cook University with final registration. Despite the first signs that the new profession could be successfully integrated into the health system, progress stalled and the majority of PAs in Australia became unemployed.

In China and other Asian countries, the " barefoot doctor " is a doctor. However, it only meets the minimum requirements. The barefoot doctor was part of a greater turn to rural areas during the Cultural Revolution . This is also underlined by a saying of Mao Zedong , who demanded in 1965: "Put the emphasis in the health care system on the rural areas!" The barefoot doctor had a three-month training in traditional Chinese medicine in the county hospital .

history

The Norman Roger II (1095–1154) issued the first simple official licensing regulations for doctors in his sphere of influence in 1140, perhaps under the influence of the Salerno School . This confirmed and specified the Staufer Friedrich II. (1194-1250) in the year 1240. The regulations of 1240 contained instructions for the medical training. It also provided that the surgeons within the scope of the regulation had to acquire and present written certificates from the professors in Salerno if they wanted to practice. They should also have attended classes in anatomy and surgery for at least one year.

literature

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ Sabine Rieser: “Doctor assistant, please take over!” In: Deutsches Ärzteblatt , August 2007, p. 352. Retrieved on October 17, 2009.
  3. ^ Website Medical School 11 Heidelberg (i.Gr.) , accessed on February 1, 2020.
  4. ^ Benjamin Powell: Physician assistants in Australia: The solution to workforce woes? In: Australian Medical Student Journal , 7, 2013. Digitized
  5. ^ Sascha Klotzbücher, University of Vienna: The barefoot doctor - the last myth of the cultural revolution
  6. ^ Zhang Daqing and Paul U. Innocence : China's Barefoot Doctors: Past, present and future. In: www.thelancet.com, published online 2008. doi : 10.1016 / S0140-6736 (08) 61355-0
  7. ↑ Wolfgang U. Eckart : History, Theory and Ethics of Medicine , 8th edition. Springer Verlag Heidelberg, Berlin, New York 2017, p. 55. doi : 10.1007 / 978-3-662-54660-4