Welcome to the APAHM!

The Association of Physician Assistants in Hospital Medicine (APAHM)
is an organization for Physician Assistants (PA) involved in the inpatient care of adult patients. The goals of APAHM are to promote education, training and professional growth within the specialty of hospital medicine, provide networking opportunities for hospitalist PAs, promote relevant Continuing Medical Education resources and act as an informational resource to physicians and other colleagues.

Fast Facts

• There are over 400 PAs practicing hospital medicine
• The average length of time a hospitalist PA has practiced in this specialty is 3.9 years
• PAs average 53 inpatient encounters per week
• PAs in hospital medicine earn an average of $87,550 annually
• Hospitalist PAs participate in non-clinical activites such as participating in utilization review and quality assurance committees.
• 38% of hospitalist PAs precept PA students

 -2008 AAPA Census Data