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Job attributes valued by physicians, PAs, and NPs: A cross-sectional survey
Chris Gillette1, Chris Everett, Jan Ostermann
1Chris Gillette is an associate professor and assistant director of research and scholarship in the PA program at Wake Forest School of Medicine in Winston-Salem, N.C. At the time this article was written, Chris Everett was an associate professor at Duke Family Medicine and Community Health, Duke University School of Medicine, in Durham, N.C. She now is program director and division chief of the PA program at the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee. Jan Ostermann is an associate professor in the Department of Health Services Policy and Management at the Arnold School of Public Health at the University of South Carolina in Columbia. Sarah Garvick is an assistant professor in the PA program at Wake Forest School of Medicine. Jennifer Momen is an assistant professor and program director in the Department of Human Performance-Physician Assistant Studies at West Virginia University School of Medicine in Morgantown. Ginger Boles is program director of the PA program at Marshall University in Huntington, W.Va. Sonia Crandall is a professor and director of scholarship and research in the PA program at Wake Forest School of Medicine. The authors have disclosed no potential conflicts of interest, financial or otherwise.
Objective:
This study evaluated the relative importance of job-, community-, and individual-related factors that contribute to job choice among physicians, physician assistants (PAs), and NPs, to inform policy options to recruit clinicians to rural areas.
Methods:
A cross-sectional online survey of PA preceptors from three institutions in two states. Participants were asked to rate the importance of 16 job-, community-, and individual-related factors when choosing a job.
Results:
We received responses from 45 physicians, 74 PAs, and 15 NPs (24.2% response rate), who rated most job-, community-, and individual-related factors as important; ratings were similar across clinicians. PAs rated loan repayment programs and work hours higher than physicians, though the magnitude of the difference was small.
Conclusions:
Clinicians similarly rated many factors as important. A better understanding of the tradeoffs clinicians are willing to make between these factors when making a job choice is critical to increase the attractiveness of rural positions.
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