There is no shortage of outrage about midlevels these days, but I feel like there is a gross lack of nuance in most discussions about them. So I wanted to address the newest outrage on the medical subreddits that has cropped up recently over PA post-graduate training programs. The outrage seems to stem from a few areas, including use of the terms “residency” or “fellowship” to describe them, the pay (which in some cases is higher than physician residents), a concern about the impact on physician training (specifically that it causes competition that “steals procedures” from residents), and a fear that these programs are a sign of “midlevel encroachment”. I think most of these fears are unfou
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