PAs: Does Your Job Fulfill Your Expectations?
To measure how satisfied you are with your work, we surveyed more than 1,300 clinicians like you. Compare your experiences to those of your colleagues, starting with the key question: Would you do it again?
Echoing the survey results—which ranked “Making a difference and providing significant help” as the topmost source of job satisfaction—one of your colleagues commented that, “Ability to offer meaningful support to client needs” affected their satisfaction. On the other hand, though, one clinician wrote, “I am starting to decrease my time in urgent care because I’m seeing more often that administration thinks we are selling a good, not a service—and because of lack of respect by patients as well.”
Compared to last year, the changes in response are
,3% decrease: Making a difference and providing significant help
No change: Respect received from patients and their families
6% increase: Relationships with your colleagues
2% increase: Quality and duration of patient relationships
MOST SATISFIED BY SPECIALTY
Knowing that certain specialties offer more advantages than others, we presented a list of 19 medical specialties, asking which is your primary one. We also asked how often you typically feel satisfied with your job, with these answer choices.
- Never
- Occasionally
- About half the time
- Most of the time
- Always
To see what your colleagues said, go to the next page
