Who We Are
We are a collection of medical school graduates who recognize the realities of healthcare provider shortages, physician training shortages and a surplus of medical graduates who have not yet matched into residency who are not being used to their full potential. With the creation of the state of Missouri’s assistant physician (not physician assistant) licensure in 2014, an avenue was created to begin to address all those concerns. And in 2020, we decided to formally unify towards that effort into the National Association of Assistant/Associate Physicians (NAAP).
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To minimize the disparities in healthcare access and shortage of professional healthcare services by utilizing the knowledge, experience, and enthusiasm of unmatched medical graduates to provide high quality health care services to all members of our communities.
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To optimize existing under-utilized medical human capital and put graduate doctors back into the American healthcare workforce
Who we are
We are medical school graduates (both US and non-US trained) who have obtained assistant physician or similar licensure in Missouri, Utah or Arizona
What we do
There are healthcare provider shortages that leave thousands of Americans nationwide without access to basic primary health care services (further aggravated by lack of sufficient residency training positions to create more fully licensed physicians).We also acknowledge that there is a lack of other professional opportunities appropriate for our level of training or financially meaningful enough to offset our accumulated debt.
Why we do
Pursuit of licensure to establish collaborative medical practice in medically underserved areas nation-wide to address healthcare access inequalities while quantitative and qualitative systematic changes in the American post-graduate training process are implemented.