Jeffery Colette, Morton-Rias Dawn, Rittle Mary, Cannon James, Hooker Roderick S
At the National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants (NCCPA) in Johns Creek, Ga., Colette Jeffery is a research analyst, Dawn Morton-Rias is president and CEO, and Mary Rittle is public relations manager. James Cannon is a retired US Coast Guard senior officer and a managing partner at Assure Wellness Group in Chesapeake, Va. Roderick S. Hooker is a retired PA and health policy analyst. The authors have disclosed no potential conflicts of interest, financial or otherwise.
JAAPA. 2017 Jul;30(7):35-38. doi: 10.1097/01.JAA.0000515546.68860.13.
National health workforce supply and demand models help predict requirements built on individual annual productivity assumptions. Dual employment rarely is addressed, yet in 2015, about 13.5% of certified physician assistants (PAs) reported two or more clinical positions. Of PAs working two positions, 44% reported the main reason was to supplement earnings, followed by role variety. The mean number of hours worked by all certified PAs was 40.7 per week and the average number of patients was 75. Dual-employed PAs averaged more than 51 hours and 97 patients per week. This new finding reveals an added dimension to provider productivity statistics requiring refinements to annual output calculations.
国家卫生人力供需模型有助于基于个体年度生产力假设预测需求。双重就业情况很少被提及，然而在2015年，约13.5%的认证医师助理（PA）报告拥有两个或更多临床职位。在从事两个职位工作的医师助理中，44%报告主要原因是为了增加收入，其次是工作角色多样。所有认证医师助理每周平均工作时长为40.7小时，平均接待患者数量为75人。从事双重工作的医师助理平均每周工作超过51小时，接待患者97人。这一新发现揭示了医疗服务提供者生产力统计的一个新维度，需要对年度产出计算进行完善。
