POST-GRADUATE RESIDENCY PROGRAM FOR PHYSICIAN ASSISTANTS IN EMERGENCY MEDICINE University of Missouri Health Care, The duration of the program is Women’s and Children’s Hospital and 12 months. During that time you will: the University of Missouri School of Medicine are offering an intense and • Rotate through the hospital rewarding post-graduate residency Emergency Departments, adult for physician assistants in emergency and pediatric medical or surgical medicine. intensive care units and medicine wards. Other medical and surgical MU Health Care boasts over 400 subspecialties will be used to hospital beds in central Missouri. It augment the residents’ training. serves as central Missouri’s only Level I trauma center and as a tertiary referral • Be trained to monitor, diagnose and center for much of mid-Missouri. treat critically ill/injured patients’. As part of an academic medical center, • Receive hands-on experience MU Health Care is host to many in preparation for performing physician residencies, fellowship supervised bedside interventions. programs and other physician assistant residencies. • Receive procedural training within rotations. ABOUT THE PROGRAM Physician assistants in the emergency • Be expected to attend and residency program will work with and participate in grand rounds, under the supervision of emergency journal club, departmental lectures, medicine, internal medicine, surgical conferences and lectures by and critical care physician assistants guest speakers. and physicians. The experience will prepare residents REQUIREMENTS: for successful careers as physician Physician assistants must be assistants in emergency medicine. NCCPA-certified or eligible and must After graduating from the program, be able to obtain a Missouri physician residents will receive a certificate of assistant license and University of completion from the University of Missouri hospital privileges. To apply, Missouri as a physician assistant in you must complete an application emergency medicine. This unique and include the $45 application fee. residency provides a foundation A personal interview will be required. experience for PA’s preparing for the Program admission is limited to two specialty examination in emergency physician assistants each July. medicine by the National Commis- sion on Certification of Physician The starting date is July 1. Assistants (NCCPA). Program duration is 12 months. PAY AND BENEFITS CONTACT: Physician assistant residents For more information go to will receive an annual salary of www.medicine.missouri.edu/ $50,000-$55,000 as well as University emergency/residency.html, or of Missouri employee benefits, including contact: medical insurance, paid vacation and sick time off. For more information Terry Carlisle, PAC, MPAS about employee benefits, please University Hospital contact the Human Resources Emergency Department One Hospital Dr., DC 029.01 Department at (573) 882-8186. Columbia, MO 65212 Continuing medical education (573) 884-4400 funds will be available. [email protected].