Factors Associated with Physician Assistant Practice in Rural and Primary Care in Utah

Table 6

Comparison of specialty for practicing physician assistants in Utah, 2003 to 2008*.

Specialty	2003	2008	Change (percentage points)
Family medicine	40%	31.5%	−8.6
Orthopedic surgery	6.5%	10.6%	4.0
Emergency medicine	5.4%	6.0%	0.6
Pediatrics-General	6.2%	5.8%	−0.4
Internal Medicine/General	6.5%	4.4%	−2.2
Dermatology	4.2%	4.2%	0.0
Prev Med/Occ Med	3.8%	3.2%	−0.7
Urology	1.9%	3.0%	1.1
Cardiology	3.1%	2.8%	−0.3
Hematology/Oncology	2.7%	2.8%	0.1
OB/Gynecology	1.5%	2.5%	1.0
Other Surgical Subspecialty	0.8%	2.5%	1.7
Cardio-Thoracic Surgery	1.5%	1.9%	0.4
Otolaryngology	0.4%	1.9%	1.5
Neurology	1.2%	1.6%	0.4

*Includes specialties with 10 or more PAs.