AMA STEPS Forward® podcast

Training Medical Assistants as “Encounter Specialists”

Episode Summary

Elisabeth Stambaugh, MD, Chief Medical Officer at Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist, discusses how training medical assistants as “Encounter Specialists” can reduce physician burnout, close the value-based care gap, and increase team efficiency and satisfaction.

Episode Notes

Elisabeth Stambaugh, MD, Chief Medical Officer at Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist, discusses how training medical assistants as “Encounter Specialists” can reduce physician burnout, close the value-based care gap, and increase team efficiency and satisfaction. To learn more, read the full Success Story here: https://edhub.ama-assn.org/steps-forward/module/2784471. (If link is not active, copy and paste the URL into the address bar of your web browser.)