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Unofficial poll - 

 

Curious to see how medicine is changing and if it is having an affect on us and who we work for and how long.

 

So, looking for simple stats - 

 

1. How long ago did you graduate?

 

2. How many different jobs since?

 

3. How many specialties in those jobs?

 

4. How many states practiced in?

 

5. Do you see changing jobs in the next year?

 

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1. How long ago did you graduate?

 

13 years ago

 

2. How many different jobs since?

1,2,3,4,5,6,7 primary jobs

about 5 per diem jobs

 

3. How many specialties in those jobs?

in no particular order

Primary care/Urgent Care

Radiology

Chronic Pain

ER

FP/Urgent Care

Own Practice doing house calls

 

4. How many states practiced in?

2

 

5. Do you see changing jobs in the next year?

Nope - finally paid a fair rate and have control over my own life

 

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Unofficial poll - 

 

Curious to see how medicine is changing and if it is having an affect on us and who we work for and how long.

 

So, looking for simple stats - 

 

1. How long ago did you graduate? 20 yrs

 

2. How many different jobs since? 7

 

3. How many specialties in those jobs? one (EM)

 

4. How many states practiced in? 3

 

5. Do you see changing jobs in the next year? hope so

 

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1. 11 years ago. 

2. 6 different jobs

3. Specialties: Family Practice, Urgent Care, Emergency Medicine, Walk-In clinic, Family Medicine, Internal Medicine

4. 2 states

5,  No, don't think so, but one never knows.

 

last question:  YES, PAs should be independent....the mechanism of how  to get there is under debate. 

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1) 30 years

2) 6 different positions (only one in NY and 5 in TX) I owned my own practice in the early 90's in NYC.

3) 2 specialties FP and ENT

4) NY and TX

5) who knows!

6)  Absolutely!!  See my answer to #2.  I was never sohappy to practice medicine than during the years I owned my own practice.  Notice the 5 job changes all took place in  TX.

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1. How long ago did you graduate?


14 yrs 


 


2. How many different jobs since?


3 full time, and a handful of perdiems on the side over the yrs


 


3. How many specialties in those jobs?


2  (Critical Care and Cardiac Surgery)


 


4. How many states practiced in?


2 (NY and WA)


 


5. Do you see changing jobs in the next year?


Nope.


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Unofficial poll - 

 

Curious to see how medicine is changing and if it is having an affect on us and who we work for and how long.

 

So, looking for simple stats - 

 

1. How long ago did you graduate? 4 years ago

 

2. How many different jobs since?  3 jobs

 

3. How many specialties in those jobs?  3

 

4. How many states practiced in?  2

 

5. Do you see changing jobs in the next year?  Maybe

 

Thanks

 

My work history, if simply stated as above, makes me look like a poor professional.  Let me clarify. 

 

Got hired by an IHS clinic while I was still in school - internal medicine with some peds.  4 months into that gig the politics changed so I was worried about keeping my job (through no fault of my own).  At that time, another clinic called - an urgent care closer to home - as they still had my resume from when I'd applied earlier in the year.  I dropped to part time at the IHS job and worked full time at the urgent care.  I maintained that schedule for a year and a half, then dropped to just the UC job. I did that by itself for 11 months, then picked up a part time job in wound care and hyperbaric medicine.  I've been doing the UC job full time and the wound care job part time for almost a year and-a-half now. 

 

So, 3 specialties in 3 jobs over 4 years. 

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No apologies needed, Andrew.

One of my reasons in posting this question was to show that PAs, as many many other careers, are no longer one and done.

Medicine has politics and waves of action and non-action that move us like the tide.

Doctors retire or quit or whatever and PAs have to do what we have to do as we are likely the breadwinners in our families.

 

My husband's uncle worked for Ford for 45 years, his wife for United Airlines for 44.

That just doesn't happen anymore.

 

You can work for one company that gets eaten by another and then another.

Or, you can figure out that whatever specialty you are working in no longer fits your persona or familial needs.

 

When one of my kids was born I was working 6p-6a in an urban ER and only had to work 10 shifts a month to make what someone working 160 hrs a month did.

But, I was delirious and sleep deprived and lived like a bat with the night shift - even after 3 months off with the baby.

It wasn't fair to me or the baby or my husband or anyone else.

So, change was necessary.

 

25 years in, I don't care what my resume looks like in terms of where all I have worked. Medicine is changing. I have a valuable skill to offer a practice or setting and I do that; I take care of my patients.

I am trying to lighten up on myself and know that I work to live ---- not live to work.

 

So, again, no apologies. I am fascinated to know how everyone else has been doing it all through the years.

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1. How long ago did you graduate?  2 years

 

2. How many different jobs since?  1 FT job, 3 per diem

 

3. How many specialties in those jobs?  3 months of FP (covering for maternity leave), UC (2 years of this), EM (2 months)

 

4. How many states practiced in?   1

 

5. Do you see changing jobs in the next year?   Likely.  Onwards and upwards! :)

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1. How long ago did you graduate?   32 years

 

2. How many different jobs since?  8 practicing PA jobs (left due to addition of spine fellow thus no OR; recruited for non-pt. care position that was poorly funded, director contract not renewed thus all providers were gone, recruited by ED physician to join/establish FM practice, was hoping to teach, recruited for current position)

 

3. How many specialties in those jobs? spine, cardiology, EM (most years to this point), FM/IM, Emp. Health

 

4. How many states practiced in?  1 (hey, it's a BIG state)

 

5. Do you see changing jobs in the next year?  hope not

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I'm about 5 years in.

 

First job: Worked a brief 5 Mos in PM&R which was a nightmare as some here might remember. Then, A friend and I started planning a practice in FP/HIV. I worked for a year in GI while waiting to get our ducks in line to open. Then I worked 3 years in that practice but left due to poor pay and commute and have been in PC/UC for the past 5 months. My friend still has the practice and yes, lol, we are still friends.

 

Not planning on leaving my current job but who knows, press ganey and unreasonable and demanding pts may push me out.

 

Definitely in favor of PA independence. I don't plan on "hanging out my own shingle" but do not want to be tethered to a Doc.

 

Sent from my S5 Active...Like you care...

 

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In practice for just over 3 years. First gig was a very short 5 months in ortho spine which was awful and I've described here in detail. After that I was in occ med for just shy of 2 years. Currently in FP since January; I like it for the most part. Dont plan on changing jobs unless I move. I've also done per diem disability evals for the VA for the last year and a half. Practiced in 2 states.

 

I think PAs should have independence in primary care after several years in full time FP/EM/UC/IM practice. NPs can have it right out of the gates in some states which is absurd.

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1. How long ago did you graduate? 30 years

 

2. How many different jobs since? 5

 

3. How many specialties in those jobs? 3

 

4. How many states practiced in? 1

 

5. Do you see changing jobs in the next year?

Yes..currently stating a new position in a few weeks. After working for a contracting company for 8 years, the company had a merger and did a clean swipe of all  employees and hired new,younger staff (for less $$).

I certainly didn't see that one coming after continuous employment as a PA for 30 years.
It's been a very interesting & humbling experience being back  in the job market at this time in my career as a PA .I have definitely felt a  bias in hiring trends towards those who will require less compensation. (The majority of management level folks I have encountered have one focus...it's all about the $$)

​Oh the stories I could tell ..but for now suffice it to say that I would absolutely ,without a doubt support PAs being independent and in better control of our livlihood!!

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Please, all of you who support PA autonomy/independence go to the AAPA website or send them an email that you desire the AAPA to support complete autonomy for PAs.  They are doing the strategic plan for 2016 and we need our voices heard.  If you are on the Huddle you can post there.  You have to be an AAPA member.  If not a member, send them an email. 

 

Send them a well thought out email/post of why you believe PAs should be autonomous/independent.  

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Good Paula,  It would also be helpful if the state chapters supported this move and stated it to the AAPA.  For those that don't want  to practice independently, all well and good but at least support the idea that we can.   The nursing lobby has done a great job of pushing independence for the APNs!!

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1. 7 years ago

 

2. 2 main jobs multiple per deim/locums

 

3. EM/hospitalist

 

4. 1

 

5. no.

 

zinger question. short answer, yes we should be independent. At the risk of offending an NPs out there, IMHO PA education is far superior. HANDS DOWN. The thing NP's have to their advantage is their PR/lobby network. They are very organized and have a unified  front. So that begs the question..... why don't we have a unified front? Why are we not advocating for independent practice?  That's a question to our leaders..... AAPA... SEMPA.... PAFT..... anybody......

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Unofficial poll - 

 

Curious to see how medicine is changing and if it is having an affect on us and who we work for and how long.

 

So, looking for simple stats - 

 

1. How long ago did you graduate?

9 yrs

 

2. How many different jobs since?

4 (IM, Occ Med, ER, CT Surgery)

 

3. How many specialties in those jobs?

See #2

 

4. How many states practiced in?

1

 

5. Do you see changing jobs in the next year?

 Not job. Maybe employer. But who knows?

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Unofficial poll - 

 

Curious to see how medicine is changing and if it is having an affect on us and who we work for and how long.

 

So, looking for simple stats - 

 

1. How long ago did you graduate?

 

2. How many different jobs since?

 

3. How many specialties in those jobs?

 

4. How many states practiced in?

 

5. Do you see changing jobs in the next year?

 

Thanks

25 years

6

1. I tried a specialty practice once but after being in primary care for so long it just felt weird.

1 state + the military

Possibly. For the first time in my career I'm in a place where I'm just not a good fit. It's time to do something else.

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