Training Physician Assistants for Rural Appalachia: An Academic Partnership for Interprofessional Collaboration

Reamer L. Bushardt; Frederick K. Whitt; Tanya Gregory

doi:10.18043/ncm.75.1.53

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Training Physician Assistants for Rural Appalachia

An Academic Partnership for Interprofessional Collaboration

Reamer L. Bushardt, Frederick K. Whitt and Tanya Gregory

North Carolina Medical Journal January 2014, 75 (1) 53-55; DOI: https://doi.org/10.18043/ncm.75.1.53

Reamer L. Bushardt

professor and chair, Department of Physician Assistant Studies, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina

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For correspondence: rbushard@wakehealth.edu

Frederick K. Whitt

founding dean, College of Health Sciences, Appalachian State University, Boone, North Carolina

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Tanya Gregory

assistant professor, Department of Physician Assistant Studies, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina

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Abstract

Wake Forest School of Medicine and the College of Health Sciences at Appalachian State University are partnering to train physician assistants to practice as primary care providers in medically underserved parts of Western North Carolina. The partnership will also develop interprofessional education and team-based training activities for health professions students.

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