Physician associates support doctors diagnosing and managing patients, often in GP surgeries or hospitals.
The Royal College of Physicians held an extraordinary general meeting earlier this month – for only the third time in its 505-year history – on the topic of physician associates.
The role usually requires a bioscience-related first degree to get onto one of the training programmes, but if you’re a registered healthcare professional such as a nurse or midwife you can also apply to become a physician associate.for physician associates, which is equivalent to a master’s degree and typically takes two and a half years to complete.
The general secretary of the Hospital Consultants and Specialists Association, Dr Paul Donaldson, told FactCheck: “Associate roles are poorly defined and misnamed. They are assistants, not doctors, and they should be clearly labelled as such. NHS England sent out a letter on guidance for physician associates to trusts, which run local health services
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