Nurse practitioners (NPs) and physician assistants (PAs) are filling the primary care physician gap. Here’s which states have the highest percentage of NPs and PAs in primary care. The COVID-19 ...

For many patients, seeing a nurse practitioner has become a routine part of primary care, in which these "NPs" often perform the same tasks that patients have relied on doctors for. But NPs in ...

Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine, based in Nutley, N.J., is aiming to strengthen its primary care physician workforce by addressing the financial burden of medical education. Seventy percent of ...

Our study has three major findings. First, we found that physician job satisfaction at baseline is related to some but not all of our measures of patient-rated quality of primary care at the 6-month ...

As a new physician assistant in primary care, you will be given an initial induction programme to provide basic experience of working in this setting. In general practice this will be in line with an ...