Training Physician Assistants for the Pacific Northwest: The MEDEX Northwest Ten-Year Experience

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The student characteristics and employment status of physician assistants trained at MEDEX Northwest in Seattle between 1969 and 1979 were surveyed. There were 201 graduates and an attrition rate of 11.1 percent. Of 142 respondents, 88.7 percent were currently employed as physician assistants or nurse practitioners. Most (77.5 percent) were employed by their teaching preceptors following graduation. A majority (55.6 percent) were working in public or nonprofit private sector facilities.

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