Get Ohio Medical Board Pa Supervisory Agreement

Because PAs have the opportunity to excel in virtually any specialty area of medicine, types of physician assistants span a variety of roles, specialties, and sub-specialty areas. PAs have the ability to specialize in one or several areas throughout their career. This versatility is a main advantage of the PA role.

A supervising physician may be the primary supervising physician for six PAs but can be an alternate for an unlimited number of PAs.

Every PA must be supervised by a licensed physician (either M.D. or D.O.). The supervising physician is responsible for all medical services provided by the PA under their supervision and for following each patient's progress.

(B) A physician may enter into supervision agreements with any number of physician assistants, but the physician may not supervise more than five physician assistants at any one time.

How many supervising physicians can a PA have? There is no limit to the number of supervising physicians a PA may have.

Now let's talk about changing specialties and working in multiple specialties — PAs can do it all! One of the benefits of the PA profession is being trained as a generalist with the option of working in more specialized areas.

(B) No person shall practice as a physician assistant without the supervision, control, and direction of a physician.

There is no specific restriction that requires PAs to limit the number of physicians they designate as primary supervisors. However, the Board prefers that PAs structure their practice arrangements such that they have an opportunity to develop close working relationships with their primary supervisors.