Analysis of 2011 physician assistant education debt load

Miranda A Moore¹, Megan Coffman, James F Cawley+3

• ¹Miranda A. Moore is an assistant professor in the Department of Family and Preventive Medicine at Emory University's School of Medicine in Atlanta, Ga. Megan Coffman is a health policy administrator and health services researcher at the Robert Graham Center for Policy Studies in Family Medicine and Primary Care, part of the American Academy of Family Physicians in Washington, D.C. James F. Cawley is professor of prevention and community health and professor of physician assistant studies at the George Washington University in Washington, D.C., and former senior research fellow at the American Academy of PAs in Alexandria, Va. Diana Crowley is quality and health IT manager at the American College of Emergency Physicians in Washington, D.C. At the time this article was written, Anthony Miller was chief policy and research officer for the Physician Assistant Education Association and Kathleen Klink was medical director of the Robert Graham Center. The authors disclose that the study was funded by the Physician Assistant Education Association. The information and opinions contained in research from the Robert Graham Center do not necessarily reflect the views or the policy of the American Academy of Family Physicians.