id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_6j4yyznfnvhybfbxaousc3etw4 Justine Strand The Practicante: Puerto Rico Physician Assistant Prototype 2006 3 .pdf application/pdf 1850 159 61 The PPrraaccttiiccaannttee:: Puerto Rico Physician Puerto Rico under the authority of Physician Assistant History at http:// Physician Assistant History Center practicante was used to extend physician health care services in the commonwealth from the mid-1800s into the Costa Mandry notes that "the profession of practicantes in Puerto Rico were authorized to vaccinate and prescribe in 1855, during a cholera epidemic.3 This set the stage for formalizing the role of the practicante law regulating the practice of medicine and did not include practicantes. some practicantes continued to provide health services, particularly in Puerto Rico was being debated, public health director Myron Wegman Puerto Rico.8 The practicante has a problems had been previously recogThe Practicante: Puerto Rico Physician Assistant Prototype The Practicante: Puerto Rico Physician Assistant Prototype full circle and enable today's physician assistant to contribute to health for public health in Puerto Rico: Physician assistants: their contribution to health care. ./cache/work_6j4yyznfnvhybfbxaousc3etw4.pdf ./txt/work_6j4yyznfnvhybfbxaousc3etw4.txt