Improving Military Medical Retention Through Growth Counseling: A Cross-sectional Retention Survey of U.S. Army Physician Assistants.

Introduction: Although compensation is often the only factor considered with military medical retention, retention has been shown to have many other important factors. Maximizing the retention of military medical personnel not only decreases the cost of recruiting them but also maintains the institutional knowledge of military medicine needed to conduct military medical operations. This study used a recent retention survey of U.