your career in healthcare

Host: Tim Rush
Guest: Gail Curtis

In May 2017, the American Academy of Physician Assistants (AAPA) House of Delegates approved a new policy, referred to as the Optimal Team Practice Guidelines. These guidelines were intended to expand access to care and better fit the PA profession to the current healthcare marketplace. What does this policy mean for the physician assistant field in terms of patient care, how will they collaborate with physicians, and what new career opportunities will emerge moving forward?

Host Tim Rush talks with Gail Curtis, President and Chair of the AAPA Board of Directors, about ways in which these PA practice guidelines will change the physician assistant profession.

Host: Tim Rush
Guest: Teresa MacGregor PhD, ARNP
Guest: Roberta Christopher, EdD, MSN, ARNP, NE-BC, CHTS-CP

Federal regulations requiring the implementation of electronic health records (EHRs) spurred the need for the healthcare industry to assess processes and employee skill sets relative to maintaining proper electronic records and improving patient care and safety outcomes. As a healthcare professional, it's likely that your job is affected every day by tasks or information related to health informatics. Because of the breadth of the health informatics industry and the depth of its impact on medical facilities throughout the country, we have interviewed some of the industry’s thought leaders on the practice of health informatics and nursing informatics.

Dr. Christopher is an ANCC board certified nurse executive, and is board certified as a healthcare technology specialist clinician/practitioner consultant (CHTS-CP) through the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA). She is also an active member of the AHIMA and the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS). Dr. Christopher was credentialed by EPIC in electronic health record (EMR) report writing and inpatient clinical documentation. She had further training in EPIC hospital outpatient departments, Stork (maternal child module), ASAP (emergency department module), BEACON (oncology module), research, and business intelligence reporting during her tenure overseeing a nursing informatics department and co-facilitating an EPIC EMR go …

Host: Tim Rush
Guest: Noel Lumpkin, MD

Most doctors have heard of locum tenens, but very few actually know how it works. Dr. Noel Lumpkin, author of the book Road Warrior Physician, wants to change this awareness issue for physicians. Together with our host, Tim Rush, she will discuss the necessary steps, benefits, and career landscape for this decision, both for doctors and hospital systems.

Host: Tim Rush
Guest: Noel Lumpkin, MD

Most doctors have heard of locum tenens, but very few actually know how it works. Dr. Noel Lumpkin, author of the book Road Warrior Physician, wants to change this awareness issue for physicians. Together with our host, Tim Rush, she will discuss the necessary steps, benefits, and career landscape for this decision, both for doctors and hospital systems.

Host: Tim Rush
Guest: Robin Mcalister Mangione, MD

Host Tim Rush chats with Dr. Robin Mangione, a locum tenens physician with Weatherby Healthcare whose life on a sailboat allows her to take urgent care assignments wherever the sea takes her.

Host: Tim Rush
Guest: Robin Mcalister Mangione, MD

Host Tim Rush chats with Dr. Robin Mangione, a locum tenens physician with Weatherby Healthcare whose life on a sailboat allows her to take urgent care assignments wherever the sea takes her.

Host: Tim Rush
Guest: Walter Boutwell

Host Tim Rush chats with Dr. Walter Boutwell, a neonatologist from Montgomery, Alabama about his experience as a locum tenens doctor for the last 17 years, affording him the unique flexibility to participate in several medical missions and write works of speculative fiction.

Host: Tim Rush
Guest: Walter Boutwell

Host Tim Rush chats with Dr. Walter Boutwell, a neonatologist from Montgomery, Alabama about his experience as a locum tenens doctor for the last 17 years, affording him the unique flexibility to participate in several medical missions and write works of speculative fiction.

Host: Tim Rush
Guest: Walter Boutwell

Host Tim Rush chats with Dr. Walter Boutwell, a neonatologist from Montgomery, Alabama about his experience as a locum tenens doctor for the last 17 years, affording him the unique flexibility to participate in several medical missions and write works of speculative fiction.

Host: Tim Rush
Guest: Roxanne Richards, MD

Many people dream of packing up their bags and moving to the Alaskan wilderness, but practicing medicine in Alaska comes with unique challenges.

Host Tim Rush talks with Dr. Roxanne Richards, a Family Medicine Physician at Norton Sound Regional Health Outpatient Clinic in Nome, Alaska about her experience working as a Locum Tenens doctor in Alaska.

Host: Tim Rush
Guest: Roxanne Richards, MD

Many people dream of packing up their bags and moving to the Alaskan wilderness, but practicing medicine in Alaska comes with unique challenges.

Host Tim Rush talks with Dr. Roxanne Richards, a Family Medicine Physician at Norton Sound Regional Health Outpatient Clinic in Nome, Alaska about her experience working as a Locum Tenens doctor in Alaska.

Host: Tim Rush
Guest: Roxanne Richards, MD

Many people dream of packing up their bags and moving to the Alaskan wilderness, but practicing medicine in Alaska comes with unique challenges.

Host Tim Rush talks with Dr. Roxanne Richards, a Family Medicine Physician at Norton Sound Regional Health Outpatient Clinic in Nome, Alaska about her experience working as a Locum Tenens doctor in Alaska.

Host: Tim Rush
Guest: Fred Moss, MD

In today’s fast paced world, it can be hard for people to find time in their busy schedules for even the most accessible mainstays of psychological treatment, such as talking to a therapist.

Dr. Fred Moss, a Board Certified Psychiatrist and practitioner in the emerging telepsychiatry field, is helping usher in a new response to this problem by utilizing virtual psychiatric services. Is this approach as effective as the in-person visit?

Host: Tim Rush
Guest: Fred Moss, MD

In today’s fast paced world, it can be hard for people to find time in their busy schedules for even the most accessible mainstays of psychological treatment, such as talking to a therapist.

Dr. Fred Moss, a Board Certified Psychiatrist and practitioner in the emerging telepsychiatry field, is helping usher in a new response to this problem by utilizing virtual psychiatric services. Is this approach as effective as the in-person visit?

Host: Tim Rush

There is an expectation among many doctors finishing residency to seek and sign long term work contracts with hospitals and private practices. But for some, this particular career trajectory can feel limited and even restrictive to achieving work/life balance.

Dr. Johnny Shen, a family practice physician trained in Houston, TX, investigated whether there could be another way. His discovery of locum tenens, normally considered "side work" within parts of the medical community, set him on a unique and fulfilling career path that has both defied expectations and changed the way others think of the practice.

Dr. Shen joins host Tim Rush to discuss perspectives on locum tenens as a distinct career path for young physicians

Host: Tim Rush

There is an expectation among many doctors finishing residency to seek and sign long term work contracts with hospitals and private practices. But for some, this particular career trajectory can feel limited and even restrictive to achieving work/life balance.

Dr. Johnny Shen, a family practice physician trained in Houston, TX, investigated whether there could be another way. His discovery of locum tenens, normally considered "side work" within parts of the medical community, set him on a unique and fulfilling career path that has both defied expectations and changed the way others think of the practice.

Dr. Shen joins host Tim Rush to discuss perspectives on locum tenens as a distinct career path for young physicians

Host: Tim Rush
Guest: Asif Ali, MD

Most doctors have heard about telemedicine, also called telehealth and e-medicine, but few have actually seen or utilized it in practice. As technologies enabling virtual patient visits and consultations continue to improve and gain more traction by clinicians, how will American healthcare systems change?

Joining host Tim Rush to discuss the current and future impacts of telemedicine in health care is Dr. Asif Ali, Clinical Assistant Professor of Cardiology at the University of Texas Health Science Center. Dr. Ali lectures nationwide on the evolving applications of telemedicine in modern practice.

Host: Tim Rush
Guest: Asif Ali, MD

Most doctors have heard about telemedicine, also called telehealth and e-medicine, but few have actually seen or utilized it in practice. As technologies enabling virtual patient visits and consultations continue to improve and gain more traction by clinicians, how will American healthcare systems change?

Joining host Tim Rush to discuss the current and future impacts of telemedicine in health care is Dr. Asif Ali, Clinical Assistant Professor of Cardiology at the University of Texas Health Science Center. Dr. Ali lectures nationwide on the evolving applications of telemedicine in modern practice.

Host: Tim Rush
Guest: Asif Ali, MD

Most doctors have heard about telemedicine, also called telehealth and e-medicine, but few have actually seen or utilized it in practice. As technologies enabling virtual patient visits and consultations continue to improve and gain more traction by clinicians, how will American healthcare systems change?

Joining host Tim Rush to discuss the current and future impacts of telemedicine in health care is Dr. Asif Ali, Clinical Assistant Professor of Cardiology at the University of Texas Health Science Center. Dr. Ali lectures nationwide on the evolving applications of telemedicine in modern practice.

Host: Tim Rush

The Veterans Health Administration operates one of the largest healthcare systems in the world, and provides training for a majority of American clinicians across all levels of practice. Joining host Tim Rush to discuss the state of the VA is Dr. David Shulkin, Under Secretary of Health for the United States Department Veteran Affairs. As the Chief Executive of the Veterans Health Administration, Dr. Shulkin leads the nation’s largest integrated health care system with over 1,700 sites of care, serving 8.76 million Veterans each year. Prior to being nominated by President Obama and being confirmed by the United States Senate as Under Secretary of Health, Dr. Shulkin served in numerous chief executive roles including serving as President at Morristown Medical Center, Goryeb Children’s Hospital, and Atlantic Rehabilitation Institute, and the Atlantic Health System Accountable Care Organization. Dr. Shulkin also previously served as President and CEO of Beth Israel Medical Center in New York City.

For more information on careers at VA, please visit http://www.vacareers.va.gov