Search Results Search Sort by RelevanceMost Recent Policy Forum Sep 2019 How Should Public Health Schools Help Meet Millennium Development Goals in Latin America? Taryn Clark, MD, Julia Terle, MD, and Robert H. Gilman, MD Four MDGs directly concern public health, and public health schools should be involved in meeting them. AMA J Ethics. 2019;21(9):E788-795. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2019.788. Policy Forum Dec 2020 What Should We Do About the Mismatch Between Legal Criteria for Death and How Brain Death Is Diagnosed? Nathaniel M. Robbins, MD and James L. Bernat, MD Criteria in statutes and tests used to diagnose brain death don’t always jibe, and this can undermine public trust in death pronouncements. AMA J Ethics. 2020;22(12):E1038-1046. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2020.1038. Policy Forum May 2012 Physician Assistants and Their Role in Primary Care James F. Cawley, MPH, PA-C The author argues that long-term trends point to a future for physician assistants and nurse practitioners as the principal front-line deliverers of primary care, with physicians focusing on managerial duties and specialty care. Virtual Mentor. 2012;14(5):411-414. doi: 10.1001/virtualmentor.2012.14.5.pfor2-1205.
Policy Forum Sep 2019 How Should Public Health Schools Help Meet Millennium Development Goals in Latin America? Taryn Clark, MD, Julia Terle, MD, and Robert H. Gilman, MD Four MDGs directly concern public health, and public health schools should be involved in meeting them. AMA J Ethics. 2019;21(9):E788-795. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2019.788.
Policy Forum Dec 2020 What Should We Do About the Mismatch Between Legal Criteria for Death and How Brain Death Is Diagnosed? Nathaniel M. Robbins, MD and James L. Bernat, MD Criteria in statutes and tests used to diagnose brain death don’t always jibe, and this can undermine public trust in death pronouncements. AMA J Ethics. 2020;22(12):E1038-1046. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2020.1038.
Policy Forum May 2012 Physician Assistants and Their Role in Primary Care James F. Cawley, MPH, PA-C The author argues that long-term trends point to a future for physician assistants and nurse practitioners as the principal front-line deliverers of primary care, with physicians focusing on managerial duties and specialty care. Virtual Mentor. 2012;14(5):411-414. doi: 10.1001/virtualmentor.2012.14.5.pfor2-1205.