An assessment of physician assistant student diversity in the United States: a snapshot for the healthcare workforce.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The Physician Assistant (PA) workforce falls short of mirroring national demographics mainly due to a lack of diversity in student enrollment. Few studies have systematically examined diversity across PA programs at the national level, and little is known about best practices for consistently graduating a diverse group of students. We descriptively characterized the extent to which PA programs are graduating a diverse group of students and identified top performing PA programs.

Methods

Data from the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) were used to calculate the number and proportion of racial or ethnically diverse graduates. The study sample included 139 accredited PA programs that had graduated a minimum of five cohorts from 2014-2018. Within e

SUBMITTER: Bradley-Guidry C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9479258 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature