PA Perspectives in Psychiatry Podcast with PArtners in Mental Health Initiative
Todd Allen, MBA, MMS, PA-C, CAQ-Psychiatry and James “Jay” Somers, DHSc, PA-C, DFAAPA, serve as PA champions on the nccPA Health Foundation’s PArtners in Mental Health Steering Committee. Listen in to their two-episode PA Insights podcast as they describe how PAs in psychiatry – and across disciplines – are addressing mental and behavioral health and the impact those efforts make.
In Episode 1, they provide an authentic and engaging look at the pathways that brought each of them to practice in psychiatry and what their experiences have been like. They share insights about the challenges, rewards, and emotional realities of what it means to listen as a clinician.
Somers reflected on his 25 years as a clinician: “What people really need in psychiatry is to be heard, they need to be heard, they need to be understood, they need to work on the things that are important to them.”