New Research from AAPA
Did you know that the responses you provide to surveys is shared via research publications, News Central articles, and extended data briefs? Read the most recent here:
- Publication Physician Assistant Students’ Competency to Identify and Diagnose Autism Spectrum Disorder (May 22, 2020)
- Data Brief COVID-19 and the PA Workforce (May 19, 2020)
- Data Brief PA Training and Skills to Work With Survivors of Sexual Violence (April 30, 2020)
- News Central Working with Survivors of Sexual Violence Presents Unique Challenges (April 30, 2020)
- Publication Physician Assistants in Ophthalmology: A National Survey (April 28, 2020)
- Data Brief PAs and Buprenorphine Waivers (April 14, 2020)
- News Central PAs Report Barriers to Obtaining Buprenorphine Waiver (April 13, 2020)
- Publication Physician Assistants Employed by the Federal Government(March 24, 2020)
Salary Reports
The 2019 AAPA Salary Report is now available! No other PA salary resource provides this level of detail about compensation, including base salary, hourly wages, productivity pay, and bonuses. This year’s national summary reports profession-wide compensation data, including PAs who are salaried, those who receive an hourly wage, and PAs who are compensated based on productivity.
FREE to AAPA fellow, student, and retired members.*
Prior years’ reports can be found in the AAPA Shop. under Other Publications and Previous Additions.
AAPA Data Briefs
- EHR Usage Among PAs
- A Glimpse into the Aging PA Workforce: A Report from the AAPA PA Practice Survey
AAPA Research on News Central
- Practice Barriers in State Laws are Associated with Lower PA Salaries
- Charting CME on Health Disparities Leads to Positive Changes in PA Practice
- Introducing the AAPA Salary Explorer: Personalized Data in Seconds
- How to Talk With Patients About Intimate Partner Violence
- What’s Different About 2019’s Salary Report?
- One Easy Way You Can Influence the Future of the PA Profession
- Wage Parity for PAs Remains a Goal in 2019
- Conduct Research to Show Impact of PA Profession on Health Outcomes
- Autism Spectrum Disorder: Not Just a Childhood Issue
- Hate the Time Spent on EHRs? You’re Not Alone
- Thinking About Retirement? You’ve Got Company.
- Diabetes is Daunting. Finding a Quality Provider Shouldn’t Be
- Everything You Want to Know About Hospital-Employed PAs
- PAs in Administration: Higher Salaries and Job Satisfaction
- Barriers to Providing Care Improving, But More Work Remains
- PAs in Rural Locations Ready to Meet Primary Care Needs
- Are PAs Burned Out?
- PAs Can Bring Cost-Effective Care to Complex Patients
- Autism Spectrum Disorder in the Clinical Setting
- Urgent Care, a Fast Growing Specialty for PAs and Physicians
- PAs in Hospitals: 10 Fast Facts
- An Inside Look at 2017 Presentations and Poster Award Winners
- Top 10 Things to Know About PA Compensation in 2017
- Top 10 PA Leadership Insights from 2017 Salary Survey
- Insights from New PAs on Compensation, Specialties and Leadership
- Examining the Gap
- Career Flexibility within the PA Profession
- Just how far does your PA buck go?
AAPA Research Publications
- An updated National PA Research Agenda
- Improving health disparities in PA practices: A quality improvement initiative
- Towards Earlier Identification: Clinicians’ Perceptions of their Ability to Identify, Diagnose, and Refer Patients with Autism Spectrum Disorder
- PAs are a solution to the growing need for clinicians to treat an aging population
- Burnout and Job and Career Satisfaction in the Physician Assistant Profession: A Review of the Literature
- Burnout, job satisfaction, and stress levels of PAs
- Understanding the Role of Advanced Practice Providers in Oncology in the United States
- Physician assistants in urgent care
- Physician assistants in rural communities
- PAs in primary care: Current status and workforce implications
- Examining the Gap: Compensation Disparities between Male and Female Physician Assistants
- Poster session highlights PA research
Bibliography
- Physician Assistant Bibliography (through August 2017)
- Physician Assistant Annotated Bibliography (through 2014)
Projections
- Projected Number of People Eligible to Practice as PAs and the Number of PAs in Clinical Practice in 2007 through 2020 (PDF)
- Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Outlook Handbook for Physician Assistants
- Bureau of Labor Statistics, 20014-2024 Employment Projections (PDF)
Funding
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Resources
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- Study design, statistical analysis, and interpretation
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- Clinically applicable CMEs on research-related topics
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Archives
AAPA preserves the past Census Reports and National Survey Report. Our archives go as far back as the 1990s.
Selected Annotated Bibliography of the Physician Assistant Profession, 1993
- Cost effectiveness (pdf) – pg. 17
- Educational programs and curriculum (pdf) – pg. 25
- Productivity and task delegation (pdf) – pg. 229
- Author/agency index (pdf) – pg. 267
Addendum to the selected annotated bibliography of the physician assistant profession, 1993−1999
- Acceptance / collaboration with health professionals (pdf) – pg. 1
- Cost effectiveness – pg. 3
- Educational programs and curricula – pg. 5
- Ethical issues (pdf) – pg. 13
- Job satisfaction (pdf) – pg. 15
- Legal issues – pg. 17
- Licensure and certification (pdf) – pg. 21
- Marketplace determinants – pg. 23
- Minority pas (pdf) – pg. 31
- overview – pg. 33
- Patient acceptance (pdf) – pg. 37
- practice settings
- Productivity and task delegation (pdf) – pg. 75
- Protocols / algorithms (pdf) – pg. 77
- Quality of care (pdf) – pg. 79
- Reimbursement (pdf) – pg. 81
- Role identity (pdf) – pg. 83
- Author / agency index – pg. 85