Has anyone ever known/heard of a physician who worked in a physician assistant position?

I know of surgeons who have hired internists/FPs to do their paperwork/med clearances/etc, but they aren't PAs, per se.

I'm not a physician, so sorry for posting on the "physician only" page--
I think it depends on what you mean by a "physician assistant position." If you mean going by the title, "physician assistant," and working legally as a PA (meaning insurance issues, liability, etc) you have to be a graduate of a PA school and have passed PA national exams--being a doctor will not let you practice as a PA, and I think many PA schools will not give you advanced standing for being a doctor (which is stupid in my opinion, but that's the way it is). However, I do know of a doctor who has been out of practice for many years and is trying to work in the same capacity as a PA with her MD (she doesn't really want to work independently since she's been out of practice for so long). I think it's a matter of finding someone to hire you, although I can't say how this would work with insurance, etc. You would be working legally though as a doctor (not as a PA) if you did it this way, even if the job was essentially a PA job.

Oh, also check the laws for your state. For example, in Illinois, MDs are not legally allowed to practice as PAs even if they have PA degrees (this issue came up for foreign doctors who wanted to retrain and work in Illinois as PAs, and were not allowed to). Again, stupid, but I guess there's generally a lot of red tape in medicine.

The only way to become a PA is to go through formal PA training. I don't know any physician who would want to go through PA school.