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Table 1 Characteristics of Participants by Leadership Role

From: Academic leadership in physician assistant/associate medical education: a cross-sectional analysis of the association with doctoral degree, gender, and minority status

Characteristic

Total

No Leadership (NL)

Academic Director

(AD)

Clinical Director

(CD)

Program Director

(PD)

P value

  

# (%)

# (%)

# (%)

# (%)

 
 

956

472 (49.4)

95 (9.9)

156 (16.3)

233 (24.4)

 

Has a doctorate

     

< 0.0001

No

771 (80.8)

407 (52.8)

76 ( 9.9)

142 (18.4)

146 (18.9)

 

Yes

184 (19.3)

65 (35.3)

19 (10.3)

13 ( 7.1)

87 (47.3)

 

Decade of first NCCPA certification

     

< 0.0001

1970s/80s

99 (10.7)

39 (39.4)

13 (13.1)

11 (11.1)

36 (36.4)

 

1990s

222 (24.1)

83 (37.4)

23 (10.4)

30 (13.5)

86 (38.7)

 

2000s

397 (43.1)

203 (51.1)

39 ( 9.8)

71 (17.9)

84 (21.2)

 

2010s

204 (22.1)

131 (64.2)

17 ( 8.3)

37 (18.1)

19 ( 9.3)

 

Gender

     

0.0279

Male

270 (28.8)

128 (47.4)

23 ( 8.5)

36 (13.3)

83 (30.7)

 

Female

667 (71.2)

336 (50.4)

69 (10.3)

116 (17.4)

146 (21.9)

 

Race/Ethnicity

      

White

817 (85.5)

405 (49.6)

84 (10.3)

131 (16.0)

197 (24.3)

 

Asian

19 (2.0)

10 (52.6)

1 ( 5.3)

4 (21.1)

4 (24.1)

 

African American

38 (4.0)

17 (44.7)

6 (15.8)

6 (15.8)

9 (23.7)

 

Hispanic

36 (3.8)

17 (47.2)

3 (8.3)

7 (19.4)

9 (25.0)

 

NHPI/AIAN

8 (0.8)

4 (50.0)

0 (0.0)

1 (12.5)

3 (1.3)

 

Other or no answer

38 (4.0)

19 (50.0)

1 (2.6)

7 ( 18.4)

11 (29.0)

 

Under-represented status in medicine

     

0.9523

Non-UR in medicine

831 (91.0)

413 (49.7)

84 (10.1)

134 (16.1)

200 (24.1)

 

UR in medicine

82 (9.0)

38 (46.3)

9 (11.0)

14 (17.1)

21 (25.6)

 

Tenure status

     

< 0.0001

Not tenure track

762 (79.7)

384 (50.4)

74 ( 9.7)

130 (17.1)

174 (22.8)

 

Tenure track, not tenured

137 (14.3)

67 (48.9)

19 (13.9)

24 (17.5)

27 (19.7)

 

Tenured

57 (6.0)

21 (36.8)

2 ( 3.5)

2 ( 3.5)

32 (56.1)

 

Ever published

     

< 0.0001

No

460 (49.4)

266 (57.8)

42 ( 9.1)

93 (20.2)

59 (12.8)

 

Yes

472 (50.6)

195 (41.3)

51 (10.8)

56 (11.9)

170 (36.0)

 

Received research funding in last 3 years

     

0.0357

No

819 (85.7)

412 (50.3)

87 (10.6)

132 (16.1)

188 (23.0)

 

Yes

137 (14.3)

60 (43.8)

8 ( 5.8)

24 (17.5)

45 (32.8)

 
 

Mean ± SD

Mean ± SD

Mean ± SD

Mean ± SD

Mean ± SD

p value

Age

45.6 ± 10.2

46.3 ± 10.0

43.8 ± 9.8

44.0 ± 10.3

50.1 ± 9.5

< 0.0001

Years in PA Education

2.9 ± 1.4

3.2 ± 1.3

2.5 ± 1.3

2.6 ± 1.3

3.9 ± 1.1

< 0.0001

Years at Current Program

2.5 ± 1.3

2.6 ± 1.2

2.2 ± 1.3

2.3 ± 1.2

3.1 ± 1.2

< 0.0001