Female PCPs Would Do Better Financially as Physician Assistants, Suggests New Study
Most women would be financially better off earning a physician assistant (PA) rather than a medical doctor (MD) degree in a primary care field, according to a new study featured in a Medscape Medical News article.
"The majority of women physicians do not appear to work enough hours earning the physician wage premium to amortize that profession's higher up-front investments," report the investigators, M. Keith Chen, PhD, and Judith A. Chevalier, PhD, both economists at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. They published their findings in the Summer issue of the Journal of Human Capital.
