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What PAs Need to Know About the Certificate of Added Qualifications

Sep 15, 20100
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Episode description

Guest: Donald Sefcik, MD
Host: Lisa Dandrea Lenell, PA-C, MPAS, MBA

After many years of discussion, the National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants (NCCPA) will offer PAs Certificates of Added Qualification in 5 specialties, beginning in 2011. Dr. Don Sefcik, chairman of the NCCPA, joins host Lisa Dandrea Lenell to explain what it takes to obtain certification, what the benefits are to PAs, and why the NCCPA decided to institute the certification now, with the nation's healthcare system in flux.

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