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Specialization training programs for physician assistants: Symbolic violence in the medical field?
- Source :
- Health Sociology Review; Jun2013, Vol. 22 Issue 2, p200-209, 10p
- Publication Year :
- 2013
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Abstract
- Postgraduate physician assistant (PA) programs designed to train individuals for the workplace have existed since the advent of the profession itself. These residency programs continue to grow in number despite the lack of outcome data supporting improvements in PA learning, effects on career development, or improved patient care. Leadership bodies of the PA profession in the US have been at odds regarding the meaning and ramification of postgraduate programs on specialty credentialing, accreditation standards, insurance reimbursement, and employment. Using Bourdieu's cultural conflict theory as a framework, we analyze the issues confronting postgraduate PA training programs. Our paper discusses implications related to shifts in power amongst the different stakeholders concluding that, although formal postgraduate PA training can be beneficial to both the PA and the medicine, considerations related to underlying agendas need attention. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- CONFLICT management
HOSPITAL medical staff
LABOR mobility
SYMBOLISM (Psychology)
MEDICAL practice
MEDICAL specialties & specialists
STUDY & teaching of medicine
MOTIVATION (Psychology)
PHYSICIANS' assistants
POWER (Social sciences)
RECOGNITION (Psychology)
JOB qualifications
SOCIAL capital
HEALTH insurance reimbursement
CULTURAL values
LABELING theory
ACCREDITATION
EDUCATIONAL outcomes
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 14461242
- Volume :
- 22
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Health Sociology Review
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 89768702
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.5172/hesr.2013.22.2.200