Table 1.

Characteristics of Dermatology PAs

	PAs in Dermatology (N = 4580)		PAs in All Other Specialties (N = 106,848)
	Actual	Percent	Actual	Percent
Gender (p-value < 0.001)
Female	3754	82.0%	73244	68.6%
Male	826	18.0%	33594	31.4%
Race (p-value < 0.001)
White	3806	87.0%	86576	84.7%
Asian	288	6.6%	6129	6.0%
Multi-race	86	2.0%	2131	2.1%
Black/African American	64	1.5%	3627	3.6%
Other*	133	3.0%	3697	3.6%
Ethnicity (p-value < 0.388)
Not Hispanic	4110	93.7%	95782	93.4%
Hispanic	277	6.3%	6818	6.6%
Urban/Rural Setting (p-value < 0.001)
Urban	4300	94.2%	98189	92.4%
Large Rural	188	4.1%	4615	4.3%
Small Rural	48	1.1%	2001	1.9%
Isolated	27	0.6%	1508	1.4%
Speaks a language other than English (p-value < 0.001)
No	3600	81.3%	80188	77.1%
Yes	826	18.7%	23760	22.9%

Data as of 2021

*Other includes those who selected “other”, Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander, and American Indian or Alaska Native.