Environment
Physician assistants work in hospitals, clinics, and all other types of health facilities, and exercise autonomy in medical decision making. Physician Assistants practice medicine as a team and exercise a scope of practice and knowledge content similar to their supervising physician. A period of extensive clinical training precedes obtaining a license to practice as a physician assistant, and similar to physician training, includes all systems of the human body. Renewal of licensure is necessary every few years, varying by state as well as re-certification every six years, however this is changing to a 10 year cycle. Physician assistants may also complete residency training, similar to physicians' residencies, in fields such as OB/GYN, emergency medicine, critical care, orthopedics, neurology, surgery, and other medical disciplines.
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Famous quotes containing the word environment:
“The poorest children in a community now find the beneficent kindergarten open to them from the age of two-and-a-half to six years. Too young heretofore to be eligible to any public school, they have acquired in their babyhood the vicious tendencies of their own depraved neighborhoods; and to their environment at that tender age had been due the loss of decency and self-respect that no after example of education has been able to restore to them.”
—Virginia Thrall Smith (1836–1903)
“We learn through experience and experiencing, and no one teaches anyone anything. This is as true for the infant moving from kicking to crawling to walking as it is for the scientist with his equations. If the environment permits it, anyone can learn whatever he chooses to learn; and if the individual permits it, the environment will teach him everything it has to teach.”
—Viola Spolin (b. 1911)
“A positive learning climate in a school for young children is a composite of many things. It is an attitude that respects children. It is a place where children receive guidance and encouragement from the responsible adults around them. It is an environment where children can experiment and try out new ideas without fear of failure. It is an atmosphere that builds children’s self-confidence so they dare to take risks. It is an environment that nurtures a love of learning.”
—Carol B. Hillman (20th century)