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Assessing the Racial and Ethnic Diversity of Physician Assistant/Associate Program Graduates from 2010 to 2012 and 2019 to 2021.

J Physician Assist Educ

September 2024

Tamara S. Ritsema, PhD, MPH, PA-C/R, is an associate professor, Department of Physician Assistant Studies, School of Medicine and Health Sciences at George Washington University, Washington, District of Columbia; She is also an adjunct reader, Physician Assistant Programme at St. George's University of London, London, United Kingdom.

Introduction: To assess the racial/ethnic diversity of graduates of US Physician Assistant/Associate (PA) programs compared with the diversity of the populations from which they draw students and to assess diversity changes over time among PA graduates.

Methods: We calculated proportion of Black or Hispanic PA graduates nationally and by school between 2010 to 2012 and 2019 to 2021 using the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) and compared it with the diversity of the 20 to 35-year-old population using the American Community Survey. We created benchmark populations for each school based on whether the school was public or private, with in-state/out-of-state proportions provided by the Physician Assistant Education Association.

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