Before and during the session, the Physician Coalition of Louisiana educated legislators on the significant differences in the education and training requirements between physicians and other health care professionals. INFORMING OUR LEGISLATORS EXAMPLE OF MATERIALS SHARED WITH LEGISLATORS
OUR HISTORY
OUR VISION
The Physician Coalition of Louisiana formed in 2019 as a partnership between the Louisiana Academy of Family Physicians and the Louisiana State Medical Society to serve as a unified voice for all physicians and physician medical associations in the State of Louisiana. Our partner groups consist of more than 7,000 practicing physicians, residents in training, and medical students.
The vision of the coalition is to ensure that physicians continue to help shape decisions that affect patients, physician practices and the practice of medicine.
OUR FIRST CAMPAIGN – MEDICAL SCHOOL MATTERS
Nurse practitioners (NPs), and now Physician Assistants (PAs), want Full Practice Authority, also called, Optimal Team Practice, which is an aggressive, unrestricted increase in the scope of practice for NPs and PAs. Despite proposals is to destroy the medical team by removing the need for physician oversight. Medical School Matters was a collective effort by 20 physician association across Louisiana working together to defeat HB 495, which would have given NPs full practice authority and HB 442, which would have removed physician supervision over PAs.
OUR MISSION
Our mission is to provide a unified voice for all physician groups across Louisiana by educating patients, lawmakers, and the public and by influencing policy and legislation.
WORKING TOGETHER TO KEEP PHYSICIANS IN PATIENT CARE
Louisiana State Medical Society
Louisiana Dermatological Society
Louisiana Academy of Family Physicians
Louisiana Society of Interventional Pain
LA Chapter – American Academy of Pediatrics
Louisiana Eye Physicians and Surgeons
Louisiana Orthopaedic Association
Louisiana Medical Association
Louisiana Osteopathic Medical Association
LA Chapter – American College of Surgeons
Louisiana Psychiatric Medical Association
LA Chapter–American College of Emergency Physicians
Medicine Louisiana
LA Chapter – American College of Physicians
Louisiana Society of Anesthesiologists
LA Chapter – American Congress Obstetricians and Gynecologists
LA Chapter – American Academy of Otolaryngologists
Louisiana Pathology Society
Radiological Society of Louisiana ■
Louisiana Society of Addiction Medicine
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