Provide healthcare services typically performed by a physician, under the supervision of a physician. Conduct complete physicals, provide treatment, and counsel patients. May, in some cases, prescribe medication. Must graduate from an accredited educational program for physician assistants.

Other names for Physician Assistants: Family Nurse Practitioner, Family Practice Physician Assistant, General Surgery Physician Assistant, Gynecological Assistant, Medical Service Technician, Midlevel Provider, Neurosurgical Physician Assistant, Nurse Practitioner, Obstetrics and Gynecology Physician Assistant, Orthopaedic Physician Assistant, Orthopedic Physician Assistant, Pediatric Physician Assistant, Physician Assistant (PA), Physician Assistant Certified (PAC), Physician Extender, Physician's Assistant, Surgeon Assistant, Surgery Technician (Surgery Tech), Surgical First Assistant, Surgical Physician Assistant, Thoracic Physician Assistant, Anesthesiologist Assistant, Anesthetic Assistant, Cardiology Physician Assistant, Cardiothoracic Surgery Physician Assistant, Cardiovascular Physician Assistant, Dermatology Physician Assistant, Doctor, Doctor Assistant, Emergency Medicine Physician Assistant, Emergency Room Physician Assistant, Emergency Services Physician Assistant,

• Perform therapeutic procedures, such as injections, immunizations, suturing and wound care, and infection management.
• Instruct and counsel patients about prescribed therapeutic regimens, normal growth and development, family planning, emotional problems of daily living, and health maintenance.
• Provide physicians with assistance during surgery or complicated medical procedures.
• Supervise and coordinate activities of technicians and technical assistants.
• Visit and observe patients on hospital rounds or house calls, updating charts, ordering therapy, and reporting back to physician.
• Order medical and laboratory supplies and equipment.
• Examine patients to obtain information about their physical condition.
• Interpret diagnostic test results for deviations from normal.
• Make tentative diagnoses and decisions about management and treatment of patients.
• Obtain, compile and record patient medical data, including health history, progress notes and results of physical examination.
• Administer or order diagnostic tests, such as x-ray, electrocardiogram, and laboratory tests.
• Prescribe therapy or medication with physician approval.

• Anesthesia sets or kits
• Anesthesia inhalers or inhaler units or accessories
• Anoscopes or proctoscopes
• Arterial blood gas monitors or accessories
• Arterial line catheters
• Surgical clamps or clips or forceps or accessories
• Vacuum tube needles
• Audiometers or accessories
• Blood collection needles
• Blood collection syringes
• Spinal trays or needles
• Alcohol analysers
• Surgical clamps or clips or forceps or accessories
• Canes or cane accessories
• Cast cutters or saws
• Central venous catheters
• Cervical collars or neck braces
• Pleural cavity drainage unit or accessories
• Laser printers
• Crutches or crutch accessories
• Surgical curettes or loops
• Automated external defibrillators AED or hard paddles
• Surgical dissectors
• Fetal or gynecological ultrasound or echo units
• Cardiac ultrasound or doppler or echo units or cardioscopes
• Electrocardiography EKG units
• Electrosurgical or electrocautery equipment or accessories or related products
• Electronic blood pressure units
• Endoscopic video cameras or recorders or adapters or accessories
• Vacuum blood collection tubes or containers
• Eye charts or vision cards
• Medical cine fluoroscopy equipment
• Glucose monitors or meters
• Head or neck traction supplies
• Surgical dissectors
• High frequency ventilators
• Long term continuous electrocardiography EKG or holter monitoring systems
• Infusion pump kits or accessories
• Intraaortic balloon pumps or accessories
• Intracranial pressure ICP monitoring units or accessories
• Hypodermic needles
• Intravenous tubing with catheter administration kits
• Knee braces or hinged knee supports
• Lancets
• Emergency response litters or stretchers or accessories
• Spinal trays or needles
• Mercury blood pressure units
• Medical magnetic resonance imaging MRI scanners
• Microscope slides
• Binocular light compound microscopes
• Surgical clamps or clips or forceps or accessories
• Floor grade nail nippers
• Surgical probes or directors
• Nasogastric tubes
• Nebulizers or accessories
• Surgical needle holders for general use
• Notebook computers
• Surgical microscopes or loops or magnifiers or accessories
• Ophthalmoscopes or otoscopes or scope sets
• Ophthalmoscopes or otoscopes or scope sets
• Pulse oximeter units
• Personal computers
• Personal digital assistant PDAs or organizers
• Surgical lasers or accessories
• Radio frequency transmitters or receivers
• Spirometers or its accessories or its supplies
• Reflex hammers or mallets
• Surgical retractors for general use
• Surgical scalpels or knives or blades or trephines or accessories
• Surgical scalpels or knives or blades or trephines or accessories
• Ophthalmic slit lamps
• Vaginal exam specula
• Spirometers or its accessories or its supplies
• Orthopedic splint systems
• Mechanical stethoscopes or accessories
• Central venous catheters
• Hypodermic needles
• Suture removers
• Suture needles
• Diagnostic or interventional vascular catheters or sets
• Tablet computers
• Digital Imaging Communications in Medicine DICOM standard system equipment
• Head or neck traction supplies
• Tongue depressors or blades or sticks
• Tourniquets
• Suction kits
• Treadmill exercisers for rehabilitation or therapy
• Medical suction cannulas or tubes or accessories
• Tuberculin syringes
• Vacuum blood collection tubes or containers
• Surgical clamps or clips or forceps or accessories
• Videoconferencing systems
• Walkers or rollators
• Walking braces
• Medical x ray units for general diagnostic use

Word processing software

Spreadsheet software

Medical software

Internet browser software

Storage media loading software

Video conferencing software