title: Physician assistants as house officers: our experience.
abstract: Implementation of a program utilizing physician assistants in a university hospital non-teaching inpatient service has allowed for a restructuring of the medical residency program to provide a more generalist-internist learning experience in the teaching service. Three university-based hospitals are restructuring their programs based on this concept.
mesh_terms: D006746:Hospital Bed Capacity, 500 and over; D006784:Hospitals, Teaching; D006801:Humans; D007396:Internship and Residency; D008824:Michigan; D010823:Physician Assistants / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D000078329:Workforce