-: My name is Randy Howell.
I am a physician assistant.
I'm also faculty at Jefferson College of Health Sciences
in the PA program, and also on the inter-professional
faculty for Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine.
So PAs are licensed healthcare providers
that practice medicine.
We work in collaboration with physicians,
you'll hear different terms like collaborating physician,
supervising physician, so on and so forth.
The real fact of the matter is that PAs,
we have either a physician or group of physicians
that we work with as part of a team.