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Direct linkRuffins, Paul – Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, 2011
Physician assistants take on primary care duties that were once the exclusive domain of physicians. According to Kevin Lohenry, director of the Primary Care Physician Assistant Program at the University of Southern California, there are either 90,000 or 30 million reasons why someone might see a physician assistant rather than a physician. The 30…
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations, Physicians, Nurses, Access to Health Care
Ruffins, Paul – Black Issues in Higher Education, 1996
Black economists feel even more isolation and frustration than many African American academics and PhDs, because they continually confront the contradictions between economic theory and blacks' daily experience. The proportion of African Americans with PhDs in economics is very low relative to the undergraduates who study economics or have degrees…
Descriptors: Blacks, Career Choice, Careers, Doctoral Degrees
