
TIRBO #16: Are PAs as good as doctors?
Critical Care Scenarios
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Is There a Difference Between Basic Training and Critical Care?
For example, i have been a pa for seven and some years at this point. 100 % of that time has been in critical care. If ihad had to do all that general training, then my critical care experience at this point would be many years less. A more focusd pathway can give you a little bit of a balancing leg up to more generalized folks. The other aspect is, what were you doing before school? So the whole original concept of pas was that they were pyramedics, combat medics, who were retrained to provide services like primary care. They already had this substantial clinical background, and they were just being re trained, re directed on to a new
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