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Dr. Max Root is a member of the American Medical Association, the Utah Medical Association, a fellow in American Academy of Disability Evaluating Physicians, and a member of the American Academy of Pain Management. Dr. Max Root is an active member of the medical staff at Dixie Regional Medical Center, and consulting staff member at Valley View Medical Center in Cedar City.
Dr. Bradley Root is a member of the American Medical Association, the Utah Medical Association, the American Academy of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, and a fellow in the American Academy of Disability Evaluating Physicians, and a member of the American Academy of Pain Management. Dr. Bradley Root is also a member of the American Osteopathic Medical Association and the Utah Osteopathic Medical Association. Dr. Bradley Root is an active member of the medical staff at Dixie Regional Medical Center.
PAs are trained in intensive education programs accredited by the Accreditation Review Commission on Education for the Physician Assistant (ARC-PA) . Because of the close working relationship the PAs have with physicians, PAs are educated in the medical model designed to complement physician training. Upon graduation, physician assistants take a national certification examination developed by the National Commission on Certification of PAs in conjunction with the National Board of Medical Examiners. To maintain their national certification, PAs must log 100 hours of continuing medical education every two years and sit for a recertification every six years. Graduation from an accredited physician assistant program and passage of the national certifying exam are required for state licensure. What a physician assistant does varies with training, experience, and state law. In addition, the scope of the PA's practice corresponds to the supervising physician's practice. In general, a physician assistant will see many of the same types of patients as the physician. The cases handled by physicians are generally the more complicated medical cases or those cases which require care that is not a routine part of the PA's scope of work. Referral to the physician, or close consultation between the patient-PA-physician, is done for unusual or hard to manage cases. Physician assistants are taught to "know our limits" and refer to physicians appropriately. It is an important part of PA training. *Information
obtained from the American Academy of Physician Assistants.
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Max
Root, M.D.
did his Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation residency at the University
of Rochester in Rochester, New York. He has been in practice since 1987,
working in Salt Lake City for a year at Holy Cross Hospital. Then he
served as Rehab Medical Director at Utah Valley Regional Medical Center
in Provo, Utah for 3 years. He has been practicing in St. George since
1991. Dr. Max is married to Julaine, and they have four children; Seth,
Stefan, Jess, and Bethany.
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