Physician Assistant Awareness Survey

[bsady]

Please take the time to fill out this 10 question, electronic, anonymous survey. The survey is for PAs only. It takes about 2 minutes to fill out and will really help my data gathering efforts. Thanks for all your help. Just click on the link below.


http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=159253650955

[ansharma]

Just filled out the survey. Will you post the results? Curious to know the findings.

[GTMaurer]

Just completed the survey. Would definitley like to see the results

[primadonna22274]

Me Three!

[andersenpa]

done......

[bsady]

Just filled out the survey. Will you post the results? Curious to know the findings.

I will post the results, but will take at least a month to gather substantial numbers. Then will need a week to work out the stats. Thanks so much for taking the time. I hope to get the results published in Advance and a couple of other journals. There has never been a study like this. I think this will open a lot of eyes. I am also in the process of collecting another survey that went to the general public about their awareness of PAs. Again the results will be posted here.

[PAMidge]

No offense, but if you're going to make a survey, don't make it with 2 negative responses and 1 positive response and no neutral responses.


This is the problem, people cater these things to what they want to hear.

Unless you have specific questions along with a likert scale so that one can agree, disagree, or be neutral with your question, your survey will just be another biased, uninformative survey.

Sorry for the negative post, but there's a lot of good in your idea, but not so much in the content of the questions and limited responses you provided.

I do want to praise you though for mentioning specialty certification. That will be an important new topic.

[lisnek]

great survey! well versed. looking forward to it!

[bsady]

No offense, but if you're going to make a survey, don't make it with 2 negative responses and 1 positive response and no neutral responses.


This is the problem, people cater these things to what they want to hear.

Unless you have specific questions along with a likert scale so that one can agree, disagree, or be neutral with your question, your survey will just be another biased, uninformative survey.

Sorry for the negative post, but there's a lot of good in your idea, but not so much in the content of the questions and limited responses you provided.

I do want to praise you though for mentioning specialty certification. That will be an important new topic.

If you look at the questions...where I could I put other and have already had some people use that to type there own responses. Some of the questions made sense to put neutral responses, some didn't. There is no perfect survey. But I definately don't think it's biased.
Positive, negative, and other seems fair. Again thanks for the criticism, will consider on the next two surveys that are in the works. Please spread the word about the survey...I need a lot of respondents to give it weight.

[bsady]

No offense, but if you're going to make a survey, don't make it with 2 negative responses and 1 positive response and no neutral responses.


This is the problem, people cater these things to what they want to hear.

Unless you have specific questions along with a likert scale so that one can agree, disagree, or be neutral with your question, your survey will just be another biased, uninformative survey.

Sorry for the negative post, but there's a lot of good in your idea, but not so much in the content of the questions and limited responses you provided.

I do want to praise you though for mentioning specialty certification. That will be an important new topic.

I just checked the survey responses and people are using the other option to write in moderate or neutral responses. I think it will all work out. Really interesting data so far. Please keep the responses coming. We need as many as we can get for the validity.

[primadonna22274]

The big problem with collecting a bunch of open-ended responses is that you'll have to review and categorize them all in a systematic way. This is why survey-writing is a bona fide science!
But I hope you get the information you're looking for, and a large enough N.
Thanks for doing this!
Lisa

I just checked the survey responses and people are using the other option to write in moderate or neutral responses. I think it will all work out. Really interesting data so far. Please keep the responses coming. We need as many as we can get for the validity.

[bsady]

The big problem with collecting a bunch of open-ended responses is that you'll have to review and categorize them all in a systematic way. This is why survey-writing is a bona fide science!
But I hope you get the information you're looking for, and a large enough N.
Thanks for doing this!
Lisa

To be honest its kind of strange. A lot of people are using the other to write some more moderate responses, but many are using it to write similar responses that I already have available...??? But I don't mind the work. These are subjective PA feelings that need to be addressed since no one else has ever done it. This will also open some eyes and put a buzz in some peoples ears. All good for our profession. If I can keep the profession and the public talking about PAs...we all win.

[bsady]

over 225 responses in 72 hours! Keep spreading the survey to other PAs. We need more numbers. Thanks everyone.

[bsady]

Checked today..over 280 responses!

[primadonna22274]

I'm just posting an email that was sent to me today from one of the members of the Portland-Vancouver PA Society (OR/WA). I still get the emails so I thought I would forward this on for your thoughts. I removed the writer's identifiers as s/he may wish to remain anonymous. There was some support for this view, and another PA dinosaur and someone I very much respect told me that he had concerns that the survey is misleading esp. regarding specialty PAs. I admit I know very little about specialty PAs since I've always been a primary care PA (and my argument is that EM is pretty darn close to primary care these days) so hopefully some of you specialty PAs will know what he means by this.
I'll change the font below so you'll know what the other writer said.
Thanks,
Lisa

Colleagues,

I would caution people to stop and think a moment about what surveys they are filling out. Who is sponsoring the survey? What is being done with the data? How is your information being used once the survey has been completed? These are serious questions in my mind and I will not fill out any survey which does not clearly outline the purpose of the survey, who is sponsoring it, how to contact the person who wrote the survey if I have any questions and will I receive any feedback for my efforts. Just and FYI.