golfpa Posted December 23, 2019 Share Posted December 23, 2019 (edited) Anyone familiar with the best states/cities for physician assistants? How does Tennessee compare to California? Any links would be great! Edited December 23, 2019 by jspreen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator rev ronin Posted December 23, 2019 Administrator Share Posted December 23, 2019 44 minutes ago, jspreen said: Anyone familiar with the best states/cities for physician assistants? How does Tennessee compare to California? Any links would be great! Anywhere that DOESN'T have a local PA program. NYC is terrible. Portland, OR is reasonably bad. Move 1-2 hours away from a PA program and you have a much better chance landing a job as a new grad. 1 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
924er Posted December 23, 2019 Share Posted December 23, 2019 I’m in LA, new grad and it’s raining job offers for me, but I was an RT prior so that helped build my network. I recently accepted a side gig in wound care but just calling them directly and the pay is excellent. As for my other classmates, they all got jobs lined up just applying on indeed, so i would say SoCal is a good market Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deltawave Posted December 23, 2019 Share Posted December 23, 2019 (edited) Tennessee doesn’t pay very well from what I’ve heard. The money is west. Edited December 23, 2019 by deltawave 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SirScottric Posted December 23, 2019 Share Posted December 23, 2019 Michigan is a very PA friendly state from a legislative point of view. A law was passed in 2017 removing the terms "supervision" and "delegation" from any laws. We now work with a "participating physician" according to the terms of a "practice agreement". This law also allowed PAs to be independent prescribers with DEA numbers and do not require a physician signature for any prescription written including any and all scheduled medications. The only prescribing limitation we have is for medical marijuana and abortive drugs. The state of Michigan also has a wide spectrum of areas to work in ranging from extremely rural (upper peninsula) to urban big(ish) cities i.e. Detroit and metro Detroit areas, Lansing, Grand Rapids, etc. The pay is fairly average when compared to the rest of the country but Michigan is overall a fairly low cost of living state. The biggest drawback, in my opinion, is going to be the saturation of the job market in the next decade. The state of Michigan currently has 6 PA programs with 2-3 more programs set to open in the next couple of years. There are many jobs available in Michigan but seemingly more and more employers are requiring a certain amount of minimum experience in the more populated areas. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cideous Posted December 24, 2019 Share Posted December 24, 2019 Texas has went from a 9 to a 3 to work in. HUGE competition in the population centers thanks to thousands of NP pouring in over the last 7 years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greenmood Posted December 26, 2019 Share Posted December 26, 2019 Minnesota is great. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bike mike Posted December 29, 2019 Share Posted December 29, 2019 Georgia was a great place to practice. I made good money and cost of living was pretty cheap. I'm in CA now. Money is good but cost of living is considerably higher. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deltawave Posted December 30, 2019 Share Posted December 30, 2019 On 12/24/2019 at 5:15 AM, Cideous said: Texas has went from a 9 to a 3 to work in. HUGE competition in the population centers thanks to thousands of NP pouring in over the last 7 years. Aren’t there a lot of stand alone ERs that hire PAs to run them? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cideous Posted December 30, 2019 Share Posted December 30, 2019 2 hours ago, deltawave said: Aren’t there a lot of stand alone ERs that hire PAs to run them? Yes there are a lot of stand alone ER's but AP's do not run them or work there alone. At least I have never seen it. The only ER's I have seen PA's alone in are rural, but EMDPA can speak to that. The only place I have seen solo PA's is in Urgent Cares like mine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderator EMEDPA Posted December 30, 2019 Moderator Share Posted December 30, 2019 49 minutes ago, Cideous said: Yes there are a lot of stand alone ER's but AP's do not run them or work there alone. At least I have never seen it. The only ER's I have seen PA's alone in are rural, but EMDPA can speak to that. The only place I have seen solo PA's is in Urgent Cares like mine. Does Bowie memorial hospital in TX still staff solo PAs in the ED? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CAdamsPAC Posted December 30, 2019 Share Posted December 30, 2019 (edited) ALASKA!!!!Very PA friendly and many solo practice jobs, good pay & benefits!! Edited December 30, 2019 by CAdamsPAC 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deltawave Posted December 30, 2019 Share Posted December 30, 2019 1 hour ago, Cideous said: Yes there are a lot of stand alone ER's but AP's do not run them or work there alone. At least I have never seen it. The only ER's I have seen PA's alone in are rural, but EMDPA can speak to that. The only place I have seen solo PA's is in Urgent Cares like mine. Thanks. I understand there is a lot of “rural” in TX. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cideous Posted December 30, 2019 Share Posted December 30, 2019 20 minutes ago, deltawave said: Thanks. I understand there is a lot of “rural” in TX. True, but rural ER's are attached to small hospitals. Free standing ER's like Legacy etc are not in rural areas that I have seen. Not enough money out there to steal and they are not set up to survive on Medicaid/Medicare which is the vast majority of what you get in rural Texas. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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