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Division of Population Health Sciences and Education,
6th floor Hunter
Wing
St George's, Univ of London
Cranmer Terrace
London
SW17 0RE
Company No: 5502792
See us on Facebook
Posted 15th June 2011
In January 2011, the UKAPA commissioned a census of all Physician Assistants and Physician Assistant Students in the United Kingdom. Over ¾ of the UK PA community responded! Thank you for taking the time to answer and to assist your profession. Some general data from the census is now posted on the FAQs tab. A manuscript has been prepared from this data.
When the paper is published, more specific data will become available on the website as well. Some of the data (information about PA salaries, CPD reimbursement, annual leave and indemnity coverage) is available to those who are UKAPA members. If you are a UKAPA member, please log in to the UKAPA forums to see this data. If you are not a UKAPA member, join now to see this data!
Posted 10th June 2011
The University of Aberdeen has launched a Physician Assistant Postgraduate Diploma for September 2011 entry, subject to there being a minimum number of suitably qualified entrants to commence the programme this year. It will be the first University in Scotland to run the course which will be a two year full time course with 90 weeks of study. Applications will be open until 19th June 2011. Please contact Emma Dunlop on e.dunlop@abdn.ac.uk or 01224 437927 for further information.
Posted 1st May 2011
New Physician Assistant Course Launched in Scotland.
http://vcs.abdn.ac.uk/news/details-10147.php
Posted 21st December 2010
Dear UK Physician Assistant
You are invited to take part in the United Kingdom Association of Physician Assistants (UKAPA) annual census. We are collecting data on the training, personal characteristics, practice settings, specialties, and compensation of the Physician Assistants training and practising in the United Kingdom today.
The data collected from this census will enable UKAPA to better advocate for the profession with the NHS and medical regulatory bodies. It will also enable UKAPA members to understand more about the scope of the profession within the UK. All aggregated data will be made available to members of UKAPA.
The data will be collected via an online survey instrument. You may access the surveys by going to:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/Complete_This_Survey_Once. There are 3 short surveys to complete, but if you start with this link, the survey software will help you complete all three in succession.
The UKAPA has retained Tamara Ritsema, MPH, MMSc, PA-C as the principal investigator of this study. She is a faculty member at the George Washington University Physician Assistant Program, in Washington DC, USA. She has also been working with UKAPA for several years. Every attempt will be made to keep your information secure. You will not be asked to enter your name into the survey. You will be identified on these surveys by a UKAPA Census Unique ID which you will create yourself according to the guidelines in the survey. Ms. Ritsema does not have access to a list of UKAPA members or their contact information. No one who analyzes the data set will be able to identify your personal data.
We will be collecting this data from 8 January – 24 January 2011. We hope you will take a few minutes of your time to complete these surveys. This data will be extremely valuable to us as we seek to move toward professional registration. Please feel free to contact us at UkapaCensus@gmail.com with any questions or concerns.
Sincerely,
Jeannie Watkins, PA, BSc (Hons)
President
United Kingdom Association of Physician Assistants
Tamara Ritsema MPH, MMSc, PA-C
Principal Investigator
UKAPA Census Project
Download information about the research study (PDF)
Posted 31 July 2010
We have started a new section on the website entitled Articles for which we are seeking submissions from our members about their working environment and experiences working as a PA. If you would like to have an article published on the website, please contact us for consideration.
Posted 11 June 2010
The first cohort of six physician assistants participating in the NHS Lanarkshire Physician Assistant Rotation in Surgical Specialties (PARISS) began their year of post-graduate training in March 2010.
It has been just over two years since the first US trained surgical physician assistant in orthopaedics arrived in Scotland as part of the Scottish PA Pilot program. The Scottish Pilot Project highlighted the overall benefits of the PA role in the Scottish NHS. The surgical PA role has been especially successful and this is reflected by the significant increase in surgical PAs in the USA where surgical specialties now account for greater than 25% of all PAs in the US.
As a result of the marked success of the first Scottish surgical PA, a subsequent orthopaedic PA was recruited to assist with development of the surgical PA role in Scotland. This has also proven to be highly successful. Now this orthopaedic PA, along with physician supervisors, leads the surgical training year, providing an ideal ‘role model’ for the surgical trainees, particularly the newly trained British trainees.
Within PARISS, the PAs each rotate through A & E, orthopaedics, general and vascular surgery. Introducing PAs into the latter two specialties at Hairmyres Hospital has been one of the major goals of the program. The hope is that the vascular and general surgeons will realize the value of PAs in their department and say "we want one of those". Currently there are four British trained PAs and two from America. The members of PARISS Class of 2011 include: David Harper, Roz Holmes, Peter Jenkins, James Ennis, Annie Boyd, and Sarah Benson.
Recruitment for the 2011 'PARISS’ cohort will commence in the autumn 2010.
Posted 29 May 2010
BMJ Careers this month features FY2 Doctor Stuart Goudie's article on his experience working with the first three UK Physician Assistants working in a surgical specialty at Hairmyres Hospital, East Kilbride.
Posted 10 May 2010
This April's issue of UHB's Inside Out publication features recent graduates Matthew Bishop (Wolverhampton) and Kate Lamb (Birmingham) and their supervising physician Dr Nandan Gautam at Selly Oak Hospital. To see the article, click here.
Posted 8 March 2010
Physician Assistant students and UKAPA Student Board members Amy Green and Neil Howie were profiled in The London Student Journal of Medicine. Click here to download the article (PDF).
Posted 16 February 2010
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Posted 16 February 2010
UKAPA’s Immediate Past President, Neil Erickson, continues to be active in participating in the RCGP’s General Practice Foundation. For more information on this, see the related article at OnMedica.
Posted 16 February 2010
In an effort to sustain the organisation’s continued viability, UKAPA’s Board of Directors recently voted to increase the annual membership fees from £75 to £100. Three year membership rate options were also discontinued for members and associate members. Student and Associate annual membership rates were not changed. These changes are effective 16 February 2010.
The RCPE continues to offer free Associate membership to all physician assistants. This service is provided as a means of educational opportunity to all those training in medicine, and the RCPE have extended that opportunity to the PA profession as well. For more information, click here.
