When it comes to something as important as healthcare for our families, education and experience matter.
Why Physicians Matter?
95% of patients agree that it’s important for a physician to be involved in their diagnosis and treatment. With the highest level of education and 20x the clinical training of other providers, physician education is comprehensive, hands-on, and proven to develop the clinical judgement required to lead healthcare teams. Across the country and here in Arizona, it has been proven again and again that expanding scope has not increased access to care in medically underserved communities. It is crucial to maintain the highest standards for our families and safety should never be compromised.
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Physician Education is:
Comprehensive:
Studying all aspects of the human condition— biological, chemical, pharmacological, and behavioral—in the classroom, laboratory and through direct patient care.
Hands-On:
Rotating through different specialties during medical school, assisting licensed physicians.
Established & Proven:
Developing clinical judgment and medical decision-making skills through direct experience managing patients in all aspects of medicine.
Physician Residency is:
Selective & Specialized:
Newly graduated physicians match into residency programs for 3–7 years of training in a select surgical or medical specialty.
Reinforcing:
Newly graduated physicians move from direct supervision to progressively increased responsibility in guided preparation for independently practicing medicine.
Accredited:
All residency programs are highly standardized and must be accredited by ACGME, with graded and progressive responsibility at the core of American graduate medical education.
Physician Assessment & Certification are:
Thorough:
Students must pass a series of exams during and following graduation from medical school, with MDs taking the USMLE and DOs taking the COMLEX.
Validating:
After completing an accredited residency and establishing licensed practice, physicians may obtain board certification in various specialties to further demonstrate their mastery of knowledge in a specific field of medicine.
Physician Leadership:
Healthcare teams require leadership:
Physicians bring to the team the highest level of training and preparation and as such are the best suited to guide the other members of the team.
Highly Trained:
Physicians are trained to provide complex differential diagnoses, develop a treatment plan that addresses multiple organ systems and order and interpret tests within the context of a patient’s overall health condition. Other health team members are indispensable, but they cannot take the place of a fully trained physician.
Team Minded:
The most effective way to maximize the talents of the complementary skill sets of both professionals is to work as a team.
Scope expansion has never worked to address access to care challenges.
By mapping the locations of physicians and other health providers, each time, the results showed they all tend to practice in the same areas of the state—regardless of state scope of practice laws.
Patients Above Politics is here to fight for you.
Paid for by the Arizona Medical Association and the American Medical Association’s Scope of Practice Partnership.