Clinicians on the front line: active management of depression and anxiety in primary care.

Primary-care practitioners confront myriad issue in managing their patients with depression and/or anxiety. Understanding the scope and epidemiology of these disorders is essential to understanding their shared characteristics. Do we always recognize these patients in practice? What are the barriers to diagnosis and treatment, and how can they overcome? What are the treatment options of these sometimes life-altering conditions, and how do we choose from among the many that exist?

Improving physician assistant education and practice in SUD and policy recommendations on substance abuse education for physician assistants.

Barriers to improved substance abuse education for PAs include limited time in curricula, a shortage of appropriate clinical training sites, insufficient faculty experience and interest regarding SUD, lack of advanced training opportunities for practicing PAs, and inadequate funding for innovative program and faculty development.