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Several countries of varying medical affluence apparently agree. The government of Cameroun has established a health institute in Yaoundé to train a variety of nonprofessional practitioners. The U.S. Government is also interested in the idea. It is sponsoring programs to use former military corpsmen as Medex, or physicians' assistants, and has already put several to work in doctors' offices in the Pacific Northwest...
Wasted Years. Smith turned to a previously untapped manpower pool: the medical corpsmen who administer emergency care and assist physicians throughout the military services. "The armed forces spend up to $25,000 for training each corpsman," he explained. "A corpsman may have from 600 to 2,000 hours of formal medical training and up to 20 years of experience. Yet, after his discharge, he can rarely find a related health job in civilian life...
...Smith and his medical school launched the first Medex demonstration program with 15 former medical corpsmen. Paid by the Government, the men got three months' training that emphasized skills missing from their military experience, such as pediatrics and geriatrics. The trainees were then paired with general practitioners for year-long preceptorships, after which they were hired by the doctors for salaries ranging from...
...history and blood pressure-chores that a doctor need not do. The U.S. has an ample supply of people, including 250,000 retired nurses, many of whom would gladly help doctors concentrate on more serious matters. Each year, the armed forces discharge 30,000 highly trained medical corpsmen, including seasoned veterans of battlefield medicine in Viet Nam. But in many areas, the only civilian medical job open to such skilled men is hospital orderly...
...regulating intravenous infusions and operating respirators. As a recent Duke graduate put it: "It's not all flashing scalpels and white coats, but you can pack a lot of medicine into two years." Duke is training 40 future physician assistants a year, most of them ex-medical corpsmen. A dozen Duke graduates have already helped to set up similar programs at other medical schools. For every graduate, there are five or six job offers-most paying $10,000 a year or more...