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Stephanie Neary1,2,3, Renée Kamauf1,2,3, Mary Ruggeri1,2,3
1Stephanie Neary, MPA, MMS, PA-C, is an assistant professor adjunct and director of didactic education for the PA Online Program at the Yale School of Medicine in New Haven, Connecticut.
Introduction:
Parental leave policies are not well established or always available for prospective graduate students. This study examined the availability and inclusivity of PA program parental leave policies to prospective students at accredited US programs.
Methods:
The websites and available student handbooks of the 282 currently accredited PA programs were searched for the terms "pregnant," "pregnancy," "maternity," "parent," "family," "child," and/or "birth." Descriptive statistics and Pearson's chi-square test were used to analyze the data.
Results:
In total, 13.5% (38/282) of PA program websites and available handbooks met search criteria. Of these 38 programs, 23 (60.5%) provide information with gendered language that discriminates based on sex, most commonly only mentioning the pregnant female.
Discussion:
PA programs should create specific policies for pregnancy-related and parental leaves that are inclusive to heteronormative families as well as nontraditional and nonnuclear families, and these policies should be widely available to potential applicants and students.
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