Journal article
Does previous healthcare experience increase success in physician assistant training?
JAAPA-JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF PHYSICIAN ASSISTANTS, Vol.29(6), pp.54-56
06/01/2016
DOI: 10.1097/01.JAA.0000483097.66394.45
PMID: 27228045
Abstract
Objective: Healthcare experience is used by many physician assistant (PA) programs to rank applicants. Despite a large healthcare literature base evaluating admissions factors, little information is available on the relationship of healthcare experience and educational outcomes. We aimed to test whether previous healthcare experience is associated with increased success during the clinical portion of the PA educational process.
Methods: Hours of direct healthcare experience reported on Central Application Service for Physician Assistants applications for 124 students in the classes of 2009 through 2013 were associated with a calculated average preceptor evaluation score for each student and with average standardized-patient examination scores for a subset of students.
Results: Average student age was 28.7 years and median healthcare experience was 2,257 hours (range 390-16,400). Previous healthcare experience was not significantly correlated with preceptor evaluations or standardized-patient examination scores.
Conclusions: This 5-year single institution pilot study did not support the hypothesis that healthcare experience is associated with improved clinical year outcomes.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Does previous healthcare experience increase success in physician assistant training?
- Creators
- Theresa Hegmann - Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of MedicineKatie Iverson - Univ Iowa, Carver Coll Med, Iowa City, IA 52242 USA
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- JAAPA-JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF PHYSICIAN ASSISTANTS, Vol.29(6), pp.54-56
- Publisher
- Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
- DOI
- 10.1097/01.JAA.0000483097.66394.45
- PMID
- 27228045
- ISSN
- 1547-1896
- eISSN
- 0893-7400
- Number of pages
- 3
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 06/01/2016
- Academic Unit
- Physician Assistant Studies
- Record Identifier
- 9984295047502771
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