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Physician Assistant
The physician assistant profession was created in the mid-1960s at Duke University, developed specifically to help address a shortage of primary care physicians by training military medical corpsmen returning from Vietnam to take on expanded clinical responsibilities under physician supervision. Physician assistants typically complete a rigorous master's-level PA program after a bachelor's degree, and the profession's generalist medical training model, distinct from a nurse practitioner's nursing-based training, lets PAs shift between different medical specialties throughout their careers with comparatively less additional retraining. The role has grown substantially since its origins, driven partly by ongoing physician shortages and by healthcare systems' interest in expanding access to care through appropriately trained, more quickly credentialed clinicians working collaboratively with physicians. The physician assistant career's combination of its origin addressing a specific mid-1960s physician shortage and its distinctive cross-specialty flexibility has made it one of the fastest-growing clinical careers in American medicine.
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Physical Therapist
Physical therapy became a distinct licensed profession in the United States following World War I and World War II, when the need to rehabilitate large numbers of injured servicemembers drove significant growth and formalization of physical rehabilitation as its own clinical discipline. The profession's educational requirements shifted significantly in recent decades, with a Doctor of Physical Therapy (DPT) degree now the standard entry credential nationwide, reflecting the field's continued professionalization from what was once a bachelor's-level allied health role. Physical therapists work across a genuinely wide range of settings, including hospitals, outpatient clinics, sports medicine practices, and skilled nursing facilities, and the field has benefited from an aging population's growing need for musculoskeletal and mobility-related rehabilitation care. Physical therapy's combination of its origins in military rehabilitation medicine and its evolution into a doctoral-level clinical profession has made it one of the fastest-growing allied health careers in the country.
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