In the United States, an assistant physician (AP) is a medical doctor or doctor of osteopathic medicine who has graduated from a four-year medical school program and is licensed to practice, in a limited capacity, under the supervision of a physician who has completed their residency. The AP license is currently issued in Missouri, Kansas, Arizona, Utah, and Arkansas.[1] To be licensed, APs must have graduated from medical school and passed the USMLE Step 1 and USMLE Step 2 Clinical Knowledge exams.[2] The expansion of the AP profession aims to provide primary care in underserved areas.[2][3]
In the United Kingdom, before the establishment of the National Health Service in 1948, an AP was a junior physician attached to a hospital.[4][5]
References
edit- ^ "AAFP Backgrounder - Scope of Practice: Assistant Physicians" (PDF). 2020-01-01. Retrieved 25 July 2024.
- ^ a b Lieb, David A. (14 May 2017). "Missouri targets doctor dearth, expands first-in-nation law". AP News. Retrieved 12 March 2024.
- ^ Singer, Jeffrey (18 May 2023). "One simple fix for the primary care shortage: assistant physicians". STAT. Retrieved 12 March 2024.
- ^ Abel-Smith, Brian (1964). The Hospitals, 1800-1948: A Study in Social Administration in England and Wales. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. p. 7. Retrieved 25 July 2024 – via Internet Archive.
- ^ Peterson, M. Jeanne (1978). The Medical Profession in Mid-Victorian London. Berkeley, California: University of California Press. pp. 137, 160, 162. Retrieved 25 July 2024 – via Internet Archive.