PA Angered by patient requesting they be seen by a physician

Yeah I mean just you acknowledging that you're worried about the imposter thing means you'll always feel that way if you go PA. You should go to med school.

BLS is correct, it will be an in demand field. However BLS doesn't evaluate the training pipeline. the Bureau of Healthcare Professions which operates under the auspices of HHS does look at that. BLS says "today theres about 15k new midlevel jobs available to new grads. In 2030 there will be 30k new midlevel jobs with the number growing each year in between." Sounds great right? It's growing by nearly 2k new jobs per year. However what they don't look at is that the number of new grads is growing by about 5-6k per year. This discrepency is fine for a whle when their was slack in the job market. But eventually it catches up and blows past the job availability. We crossed the inflection point in 2015 (more new grads that year than new jobs available) but there was a lot of slack still to be made up because before that there were nearly a thousand more jobs being created than new grads each year. Now it's 2020 and all those posts about PAs working as an MA because they can't find a job after 9 months of looking is because the slack has been nearly used up. Starting next year there will be 5,000ish new grads who do not find a job for more than a year after graduation and then that gap will expand moving forward.

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