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Podcast: Clinician's Roundtable
Episode: Coming in 2011: PA Specialty Certification
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Guest: Randy Danielsen, PhD, PA-C
Host: Lisa Dandrea Lenell, PA-C, MPAS, MBA
The National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants (NCCPA) will launch their specialty certification program, beginning with five specialties, in 2011. What does a PA who may want to get certifiedneed to know? Dr. Randy Danielsen, dean of Arizona School of Health Sciences at A.T. Still University in Mesa, Arizona, joins host Lisa Dandrea Lenell to talk about why it's the right time for certification in the PA field as well as the myths and fears surrounding these new changes.