PA demand climbs healthcare job placement rankings? 4 takeaways

A Medicus Firm report found physician assistant are high up on the list on the healthcare's demand scale, according to Forbes.

Medicus Firm is a national physician staff and placement firm.

Here are four takeaways:

1. The report found the demand for PAs outweighed that of specialist physicians in 2015.

2. The three most-placed providers were family medicine, internal medicine and hospitals.

3. PAs ranked fourth among the most-placed providers.

4. In 2015, PAs surpassed pediatrics for fourth place despite not placing in the top five the year prior.

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