Date of Award
8-14-2024
Document Type
Open Access Thesis
Degree Name
MS in Physician Assistant Studies (PA)
Department
Physician Assistant Studies
First Advisor
Vanessa Bester
Abstract
Improving the health of patients requires having access to well trained medical providers. This is one of the main goals of the physician assistant profession. For many years research has documented how to recruit and retain physician assistants in the rural areas of the United States. Although created to fill the gaps in primary care medicine physician assistants have moved as all of medicine has into specialization. This gap in primary care has not closed and is most significant in rural areas. This paper reviews the plethora of research and elaborates on the known and best methods for recruitment and retention. Building on this research, the paper elucidates a different approach to solve the challenges of retention and recruitment of physician assistants to the rural United States.
Identifier
SC 11.PAS.2024.Grabbe.S
Recommended Citation
Grabbe, Sean, "Recruitment and Retention of Physician Assistants in Rural Medicine: A Novel Approach" (2024). Theses and Graduate Projects. 1640.
https://idun.augsburg.edu/etd/1640
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