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Weekly News Wire | May 26, 2026

By The End Of 2025, The Physician Assistant Workforce Was Over 201,000, Up 5.9% From 2024

The number of board-certified physician assistants (PAs) in the United States reached 201,038 by the end of 2025, according to a recent report. This is a 5.9% increase from 2024 and a 26.9% increase from 2021.

About 2.4% of PAs in 2025 specialized in psychiatry, up from 2.0% in 2021. Another 0.5% in 2025 specialized in addiction medicine, which was about the same percentage as in 2021.

The top five principal clinical practice areas in 2025 were surgical subspecialties (18.3%), family medicine and general practice (15.9%), emergency medicine (10.4%), internal . . .

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