The opportunity to lead facilitates PA professional well-being.

Objective: Physician associates/assistants (PAs) with mature careers represent an important leadership resource for healthcare employers. This study sought to determine whether PA leadership task responsibility interacted with experience level to predict professional well-being.

Methods: This quantitative study used an archival dataset from a national sample of PAs.

Well-being and the early-career PA: Influence of the collaborative physician relationship.

Objective: Recent updates to physician associate/assistant (PA) laws reflect less mandated supervision. Although greater autonomy may inspire experienced PAs, newer PAs may struggle with less required oversight. This study examined the influence of autonomy, career length, and the quality of the collaborative physician (CP) relationship on PA well-being.