4th Annual Job Satisfaction Survey

PAs: Does Your Job Fulfill Your Expectations?


 

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Correlating the data from the 2 questions (primary specialty and frequency of satisfaction) we posed, your peers indicated that the following specialties offered the highest levels of satisfaction.
  • Dermatology: 73%, a 9% decrease over last year
  • Primary Care: 72%, virtually unchanged from last year
  • Orthopedic Surgery: 65%, a new entry this year
  • Emergency Medicine: 57%, an 8% decrease over last year

As one clinician commented, being “First assistant in surgery” makes a difference in their job satisfaction.

MOST SATISFIED BY PRACTICE SETTING

Working conditions and coworker collegiality are integral to job satisfaction. To learn more about these factors, we asked you to identify the practice settings where you work.

  • Academic setting (faculty); school/college health services
  • Hospital: inpatient care; outpatient setting or community clinic
  • Locum
  • Physician practice: solo; single-specialty; multi-specialty
  • Public health/occupational health setting; military/government
  • Retail/convenient care; urgent care clinic
  • Skilled nursing/long-term care facility

We also asked how often you typically feel satisfied with your job, with 5 answer choices ranging from “Never” to “Always.”

To see what your colleagues said, go to the next page

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