Physician Assistant Program America is struggling to provide quality, affordable health care for all of its citizens. Today, there are over 37,000 PAs in the U.S. who practice medicine with physician supervision, providing patient care that would otherwise be performed by physicians.
PAs work in most medical specialities and in all types of communities.
Many practice family and internal medicine, and over one-third are in towns with fewer than 50,000 residents. The PA profession is one of the fastest growing health care professions. The U.S. Department of Labor projects that the number of jobs for PAs will increase by 48 percent through the year 2008. Each year PAs handle over 150 million patient visits. The quality of their care has been extensively analyzed by both public and private researchers.