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“What Makes PAs the Happiest Medical Professionals?” – on Clinician’s Roundtable
Why do PAs enjoy going to work? Three main reasons: helping others, interacting with patients and the intellectual challenge of the career. A 2004 study found physician assistants are the happiest medical professionals. Dr. Dawn LaBarbera, chair of PA studies at the University of St. Francis in Fort Wayne, Indiana, joins host Lisa Dandrea Lenell to discuss how her study impacts PAs six years later, and what PAs should look for in career decisions to retain high job satisfaction.
 Lisa Dandrea Lenell is a physician assistant and the director of operations for an internal medicine practice in Illinois. She is passionate about bringing physician assistant and nurse practitioner issues into the spotlight, focusing on awareness and understanding of the professions. Mrs. Lenell is a graduate of the Physician Assistant Program at Midwestern University in Downers Grove, Illinois. She has continued her relationship with Midwestern University, working as adjunct faculty.She has published in the prestigious peer-reviewed medical journal Dermatologic Surgery and has been featured in several professional journals.
Dr. Dawn LaBarbera is the chair and associate professor in the department of physician assistant studies at the University of St. Francis in Fort Wayne, Indiana. In 2004, she published a study in the journal of the American Academy of Physician Assistants (JAAPA) on physician assistant vocational satisfaction. A new study on PA gender differences is forthcoming in JAAPA.
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