Academic Service Partnerships: A 21st Century Business Strategy to Integrate Physician Assistant Learners Into a Value-Based Health Care Delivery Model

Authors

Angelique Redmond, Angelique Redmond, BBA PMP, is an assistant director of Clinical Education, Physician Assistant Program at George Washington University, Washington, District of Columbia.

Document Type

Journal Article

Publication Date

6-1-2025

Journal

The journal of physician assistant education : the official journal of the Physician Assistant Education Association

Volume

36

Issue

2

DOI

10.1097/JPA.0000000000000605

Abstract

Although there has been a surge in physician assistant (PA) programs in the United States, PA programs have concurrently experienced challenges with partnering with a sufficient pool of clinical training sites. During the long-lived fee-for-service era, many programs have relied on transactional relationships with individual clinicians, hospitals, community health centers, private practices, and other entities to provide the required clinical experiences for PA learners. These arrangements often involved bargaining a supervised clinical experience in exchange for continuing medical education credit or other incentives included in a clinician's benefits package. However, with the recent transformation of the US health care delivery system into a value-based care model, academic service partnerships have emerged as valuable solutions. Academic service partnerships uniquely integrate health professions learners into health systems by providing more sustainable, results-driven clinical experiences that benefit the program, the clinical training site, and the patients.

APA Citation

Redmond, Angelique, "Academic Service Partnerships: A 21st Century Business Strategy to Integrate Physician Assistant Learners Into a Value-Based Health Care Delivery Model" (2025). GW Authored Works. Paper 7511.
https://hsrc.himmelfarb.gwu.edu/gwhpubs/7511

Department

Physician Assistant Studies