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Kathleen A. Ferrell, DMSc, MPAS, PA-C Center for Esophageal Diseases and Swallowing The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology The PA profession should embrace doctoral education—but it must do so with purpose. A doctoral degree should not become another expensive credential that clinicians feel pressured to earn simply to remain competitive. Nor should it create a false divide between PAs who hold a doctorate and those who do not. The PA...

By Matt Bell, DMSc, PA-C, CAQ-HM If you believe your hospital doesn't really use artificial intelligence yet, let me describe what a clinical PA's typical day has become or soon will be. An algorithm scored their patients overnight for sepsis risk and decided which ones generated alerts. Another one read the chest imaging queue and flagged studies for the radiologist's early attention. A prediction model helped decide how many nurses were scheduled to your unit. Ambient software listened to a...

Megan Hudson, DMSc, PA-C Megan Hudson, DMSc, PA-C Founder, Global Health ImPAct After graduating from PA school in 2010, I was convinced my days of higher education were behind me. Like many PAs, I had poured everything I had into earning my degree and was proud to finally be practicing medicine. I loved caring for patients, but over time, I began to realize something was stirring beneath the surface. I found myself running into the same challenges and asking bigger questions: Why did it feel...