title: Physician assistant program outreach to military service members as potential applicants.
abstract: Recent efforts to facilitate the career pathway for military veterans into the physician assistant profession include outreach to current service members that will make information about physician assistant education more readily accessible. This research article reviews several topics that physician assistant programs would need to consider before conducting outreach to this population and discusses methods for outreach activities. Physician assistant programs may choose to apply similar approaches as appropriate for their individual circumstances. Outcomes will be evaluated separately.
authors.affiliation: Keren H. Wick, PhD, is director of research and academic programs at MEDEX Northwest, University of Washington School of Medicine in Seattle, Washington. William Tozier, PhD, MPH, PA-C, is lecturer at MEDEX Northwest, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington.
authors.forename: Keren H
authors.initials: KH
authors.lastname: Wick
authors.forename: William
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Tozier
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D008611:Mentors; D010560:Personnel Selection; D010823:Physician Assistants / Q000193:education*; D014146:Training Support; D014728:Veterans / Q000193:education*