Nurse Practitioners and Physician Assistants practice alongside Physicians in Emergency Departments. In 2021, an estimated 17,679 NPs and PAs worked in EDs.
How long do NPs and PAs continue in Emergency Medicine practice?
An analysis of Medicare data reports that over the eight years of the study, the annual attrition rate averaged 13.8%, or almost 1 in 7 leaving Emergency Medicine practice every year. At the time of attrition, the median age for women was 40.2 years (IQR 33.8 to 49.9) and for men was 45.9 (IQR 37.8 to 56.3).
For additional breakdown and discussion of these numbers, see Gettel CJ, Chosh R, Rothenberg, et al. Workforce Attrition Among Emergency Medicine Non-Physician Practitioners. Ann Emerg Med, in press, https://www.annemergmed.com/article/S0196-0644(24)01294-0/fulltext.
