Primary Care Physician Assistant
SLO Health Center
07.2025 - Current
Samantha Stearns
PA-C, DMS
Grover Beach,CA
Timeline
Emergency Medicine Physician Assistant
Vituity
10.2024 - Current
Physician Assistant Content Consultant
Amboss
07.2024 - 12.2024
Doctor of Medical Science -
Butler University
Master of Science - Physician Assistant Studies
Yale University
Bachelor of Science - Cellular And Molecular Biology
Westmont College
Overview
2
2
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Primary Care Physician Assistant
SLO Health Center
07.2025 - Current
- Developed long-lasting relationships with patients and families, fostering trust in the primary care setting.
- Diagnosed, educated, and treated acute and chronic illnesses in a diverse patient population, with a strong emphasis on prevention.
- Reduced patient wait times by efficiently managing appointments and prioritizing urgent cases.
- Utilized electronic health record (Elation) to maintain accurate patient documentation.
- Mentored PA students through clinical rotations in primary care.
Emergency Medicine Physician Assistant
Vituity
10.2024 - Current
- Functioned as a PA in two dynamic community hospitals, operating with a small team in a diverse community with immense healthcare shorteages.
- Performed various procedures including complex laceration repairs, eye exams, abscess incision and drainage, regional nerve blocks, foreign body removal, paracentesis, and lumbar puncture.
- Proficient with managing acute care, high acuity, and complex medical patients with chronic conditions in the emergency department setting.
- Skilled in procedures including but not limited to paracentesis, central line placement, incision and drainage, suturing and complex laceration repair, intubation, bedside ultrasound, imaging interpretation, and foreign body removal.
- Managed at-risk individuals, including behavioral health, pediatric, and geriatric patients.
- Adept at pharmaceutical management of a range of medical conditions.
- Thrived in the fast-paced emergency medicine setting while taking the time to compassionately educate and care for patients.
- Participated in continuing education through CME opportunities, simulation labs, and conferences.
- Cared for high acuity cases including severe sepsis, acute psychosis, neutropenic fever, endocarditis, severe anemia requiring transfusion, ACS, CVA, etcetera.
- Collaborated with healthcare teams including hospitalists and consultants to coordinate care and enhance patient outcomes.
- Independently interpreted diagnostic tests including blood work and radiology studies.
- Worked efficiently to chart, place orders, and interpret diagnostic testing via Cerner EMR.
- Participated and helped lead Rapid Medical Exam (RME) workflow, which significantly reduced "left without being seen" rates in a busy hospital system.
- Responsible for safely seeing roughly 2 patients per hour ranging from high to low acuity in a busy ER system.
Physician Assistant Content Consultant
Amboss
07.2024 - 12.2024
- Offered PA-specific insight in the development of a new product focused on PA education and PA board examinations.
Education
Doctor of Medical Science -
Butler University
Indianapolis, IN05-2025
Master of Science - Physician Assistant Studies
Yale University
New Haven, CT05-2024
Bachelor of Science - Cellular And Molecular Biology
Westmont College
Montecito, CA05-2014
Certification
Licensed Physician Assistant - July 2024 - Present •
American Academy of Physician Assistants • Society of Emergency Medicine Physician Assistants • Central Coast Nurse Practitioners and Physician Assistants • California Academy of Physician Associates
Emergency Medical Technician • Basic Life Support •
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