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The PA job outlook is growing 30%-Much faster than the physician/surgeon job outlook. Their salaries are rising and are approaching 100k. They are working in places that could have been filled by physicians and their job duties are nearly the same. Private clinics and hospitals are hiring them over physicians because they do the same thing for less pay.
It sounds to me that PA's, NP's, DNP's are taking over primary care. A justification that people use for this is that we have a "primary care shortage". This happened to pharmacists, physical therapists and now it is happening to primary care physicians. Years ago, I would watch the news deceive people into thinking that we have a pharmacist, lawyer, physical therapist shortage--and now those fields are more than saturated. It is clear that substituting PAs, NPs and DNP's into primary care to fill the shortage gap is going to have negative results and effects on hopeful Caribbean MD's and future DO's. The reason why I mention DO's is because, now they are comfortable in finding residency spots-just like Caribbean MD's and other foreign grads were. But eventually and competition grows, the favored degree will be US MD's. We have seen a rise of medical schools in the past decade but a constant number of residencies. Within this shortcoming, there will be problems matching in residency spots in the future, not just for Caribbean MD's but for low tier DO's. Moving foreword after residency, primary care physicians find jobs at private clinics. Private clinics would not want to hire 5 or 6 physicians. Instead, they would probably hire 1 physician and 5 PA's, NPs, DNP's because it is more economical to do so. Why would you pay someone more when you could pay someone else with the same abilities less? This would result in a poor job outlook for primary care physicians which are mainly (most-likely) from Caribbean MD's and DO's.
So I answered my own question: "Are mid-level providers such as PA's taking over primary care jobs for physicians? And will they?"
Do you agree? I just need your $0.02
Main Source: Bureau of labor statistics
It sounds to me that PA's, NP's, DNP's are taking over primary care. A justification that people use for this is that we have a "primary care shortage". This happened to pharmacists, physical therapists and now it is happening to primary care physicians. Years ago, I would watch the news deceive people into thinking that we have a pharmacist, lawyer, physical therapist shortage--and now those fields are more than saturated. It is clear that substituting PAs, NPs and DNP's into primary care to fill the shortage gap is going to have negative results and effects on hopeful Caribbean MD's and future DO's. The reason why I mention DO's is because, now they are comfortable in finding residency spots-just like Caribbean MD's and other foreign grads were. But eventually and competition grows, the favored degree will be US MD's. We have seen a rise of medical schools in the past decade but a constant number of residencies. Within this shortcoming, there will be problems matching in residency spots in the future, not just for Caribbean MD's but for low tier DO's. Moving foreword after residency, primary care physicians find jobs at private clinics. Private clinics would not want to hire 5 or 6 physicians. Instead, they would probably hire 1 physician and 5 PA's, NPs, DNP's because it is more economical to do so. Why would you pay someone more when you could pay someone else with the same abilities less? This would result in a poor job outlook for primary care physicians which are mainly (most-likely) from Caribbean MD's and DO's.
So I answered my own question: "Are mid-level providers such as PA's taking over primary care jobs for physicians? And will they?"
Do you agree? I just need your $0.02
Main Source: Bureau of labor statistics
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