Background Physician assistant/associates (PAs) are healthcare professionals whose roles
expand universal access across many nations. PAs fill medical provider supply and demand …

As part of healthcare reform, physician assistants (PAs) are needed to help mitigate the
physician shortage in the United States. This requires understanding the population of …

Objective. A component of health-care reform in 2010 identified physician assistants (PAs)
as needed to help mitigate the expected doctor shortage. We modeled their number to …

This study sought to assess physician assistant (PA) wages, make comparisons with other
healthcare professionals, and project their earnings to 2025. The Bureau of Labor Statistics …

Background: Physician assistants (PAs) are often suggested as a partial solution to
predicted primary care workforce shortages, but a declining proportion of PAs are entering …

In the next 15 years, California could face a substantial shortage of primary care clinicians.
The number of physicians completing primary care residencies in California does not …

Physician workforce projections often include scenarios that forecast physician shortages
under different assumptions about the deployment of physician assistants (PAs) and nurse …

Abstract Information on the employment of patient-care clinicians is needed for policy
planning and human resource management. The 2021 Bureau of Labor Statistics …

The introduction of the American physician assistant/associate (PA) was predicated on the
belief that the nation's health care needs had outpaced the supply of physicians. The notion …

The rapid growth in the physician assistant (PA) pipeline reflects in part a growing demand
for health services that has created many opportunities for new PAs. However, the …