Association Between Stress and Program Length in Underrepresented Minority Physician Assistant Students.

Introduction: The purpose of this study was to determine if there was a relationship between physician assistant (PA) program length and stress measures in PA students, particularly PA students classified as underrepresented minorities in medicine. The stress measures included emotional and physical well-being.

Methods: The 2019 End of Program survey data were analyzed using multiple regression to determine if emotional and physical well-being could be predicted by PA program length, age, gender, PA school debt, and UR minority in medicine status.

Physician Assistant Program Perseveres Through COVID-19 Pandemic.

The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted almost every aspect of life globally, with higher education one of many direct targets. Institutions and educators have been faced with urgent crises of how to conduct business as usual while maintaining expectations of high standards and uncompromised goals. As physician assistant (PA) educators at Seton Hall University, we rallied and brainstormed approaches to daily instruction to keep students on track and faculty both effective and sane.

Qualitative Assessment of Bias and Comfort in Inclusive Sexual History Taking Skills of Physician Assistant Students.

Purpose: Sexual history taking is an integral skill for clinicians, as sexual health is a component of a complete medical evaluation. Medical curricula lack effective sexual history instruction, creating gaps in clinicians' confidence and proficiency. Average sexual and gender minority (SGM) curricular inclusion content is 5 hours over a 4-year span.

Curricular Inclusion of Sexual and Gender Minority Primary Healthcare Needs for Physician Assistant Trainees: A Literature Review.

Curricular inclusion of sexual health, sexual history taking skills and diversity training in physician assistant (PA) education is historically lacking, with a median of 5 hours of instruction. Communities are increasingly more diverse with 4.5% of the U.

Knowledge and concerns related to the human papillomavirus vaccine among underserved Latina women.

Objective: This study's purpose was to assess knowledge and concerns related to the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine among underserved Latina women and Latina mothers of female adolescents and to explore differences between those in the vaccinated and those in the unvaccinated groups.

Materials And Methods: We conducted cross-sectional written surveys of 206 Latina women at an urban health center in central New Jersey. Participants included vaccine-eligible women and mothers of vaccine-eligible adolescents.