Assignment

The role of the physician has evolved significantly over the past 10 years. There has been an introduction of new physical roles at the hospital level, and primary care physicians have become little more than strategic gatekeepers. For this assignment, you will research and provide examples of how the traditional roles of physicians within health care have evolved over the past 10 years. Be sure to include expanded and minimized roles, private practice, large group practice, specialist, and hospital physician roles.

This should be 3-5 pages, excluding the cover page, abstract page, and reference page. You need to support your work with at least 4 academic or professional peer-reviewed sources published within the past 5 years.

Please submit your assignment.

DB Assignment

Please describe the process you plan to use to conduct research, identify findings, and develop the Comprehensive Project and present a brief outline indicating how you intend to organize the project deliverable. Please review the process and outlines of other students, providing objective feedback that will help strengthen the effectiveness of their efforts and the quality of the finished product.

Discussion Board: Evaluate the specific forms of workplace discrimination prohibited under current statutory and case law

Project Assignment

Your supervisor has been asked to give a presentation on the effects of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) on employer discrimination at an upcoming conference. She has asked your team to research recent court decisions and analyze the impact the ADA is having in the workplace. She will create her presentation based on your findings.

Individual deliverable: 1-2 pages:

Use the Library or other web resources to locate a recent court decision involving the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA).

• Summarize the relevant facts of the case
• Discuss how the ADA applies to this case

Please add your file.

Group deliverable: 4-6 pages (55 points possible):

The Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA) was designed to protect workers with disabilities against employer discrimination. As a group, discuss the following:

• In actual practice, how well does the Act achieve this goal?
• Explain the difference in protection for someone with a correctable disability and a non-correctable disability.
• How did the ADA affect the right of an individual with a correctable disability to sue an employer for discrimination?
• Support your answer with examples from the recent court decisions researched during the individual portion of this assignment.