Physician assistants, often considered primary care professionals, are entering more specialty fields including surgery and emergency medicine amid a nationwide doctor shortage, according to a new ...

The consulting firm’s “2024 Advanced Practice Provider Compensation and Productivity Survey Report” is based on data from nearly 850 health systems, hospitals and physician group practices ...

Considering a primary care specialty for your physician assistant career? Clinical Advisor recently spoke with the director of a well-respected PA degree program, Cindy Lord, PA-C, MHS, of Quinnipiac ...

ECPI University's new master's program will prepare the next generation of physician assistants to serve communities across Virginia and beyond VIRGINIA BEACH, Va., March 19, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- ECPI ...

It’s not just primary care practices that are increasingly relying on advanced practice clinicians to help care for patients. A new study found that 28% of all specialty practices are employing nurse ...

Median total wages for physican assistants working in cardiovacular and cardiothoracic surgery in 2021 were $140,000, making it the highest paid specialty, according to the American Academy of ...

Physician assistants, also known as PAs, practice medicine under the direction of physicians and surgeons. They are formally trained to examine patients, diagnose injuries and illnesses, and provide ...

JOHNS CREEK, Ga.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Certified PAs are heavily integrated on health care teams in every specialty, according to the 2017 Statistical Report of Certified Physician Assistants by Specialty ...

Mariah Wood Thaxton, a physician assistant who practices with Athens-Clarke Emergency Specialists in the emergency departments of St. Mary’s Hospital in Athens and St. Mary’s Good Samaritan Hospital ...

The job market is luring more physician assistants, or PAs, to jobs in specialty care rather than primary care practices such as family medicine and general pediatrics, according to new research from ...