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. 2025 May 1;8(5):e258638.
doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2025.8638.

Turnover Among Early-Career Advanced Practice Clinicians

Max J Hyman  1 , Kim Litwack  2 , Susanne A Quallich  3 , Andrew W Schram  4 , Ted A Skolarus  5 , Parth K Modi  5
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Turnover Among Early-Career Advanced Practice Clinicians

Max J Hyman et al. JAMA Netw Open. .

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    [No authors listed] [No authors listed] JAMA Netw Open. 2025 Jun 2;8(6):e2521128. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2025.21128. JAMA Netw Open. 2025. PMID: 40493375 Free PMC article. No abstract available.
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Plain language summary

This cohort study examines the frequency of moves to other practices among advanced practice clinicians (APCs) to understand rates of turnover among early-career APCs, which has implications for their hiring, training, and retention.

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Figures

Figure.
Figure.. Number of Years Until Advanced Practice Clinicians (APCs) Moved Practices After First Billing Medicare by Broad Practice Specialty
This analysis excludes APCs who first billed Medicare in a multispecialty group (N = 100 984). The specialties included in each broad specialty are described in the eTable in Supplement 1.
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