Assessing Burnout Among Advanced Practice Providers (APPs) Compared with APP Trainees.

Background: This study explored the prevalence of burnout syndrome among advanced practice providers (APPs = physician assistants (PAs) and advanced practice nurses (APNs)) and physician assistant students in training to become APPs. While previous research has focused on understanding burnout in a myriad of health professions, burnout among APPs and APP trainees has been underexplored. As such, this work serves as a primer for establishing benchmark levels of burnout in these specific healthcare provider/trainee populations.

Associations between professional development benefits and PA career satisfaction.

Objective: This study investigated how professional development benefits offered by employers directly correlate to self-perceptions of leadership potential, committee involvement, and career satisfaction among physician assistants (PAs).

Methods: A retrospective analysis of the 2015 AAPA National Survey and 2016 AAPA Salary Survey explored the associations between the aforementioned variables. Bivariate correlations were used to evaluate the associations between variables.