Duties performed by physician assistants include:
Evaluation - Obtaining medical historys and performing physical examinations,
Monitoring - Assisting the physician in developing and implementing patient management plans, recording progress notes in office-based and inpatient health care settings.
Diagnostics - Performing and interpreting (at least to the point of recognizing deviations from the norm) common laboratory, radiologic, cardiographic, and other routine diagnostic procedures used to identify pathophysiologic processes.
Therapeutics - Performing routine procedures such as injections, immunizations, suturing and wound care, managing simple conditions produced by infection or trauma, participating in the management of more complex illness and injury, and taking initiative in performing evaluation and therapeutic procedures in response to life-threatening situations.