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Podcast: Clinician's Roundtable
Episode: PAs Around the World: Development & Growth of PAs in the UK
Description:
Guest: Phillip Begg, PhD
Host: Lisa Dandrea Lenell, PA-C, MPAS, MBA
The physician assistant program began in the United Kingdom in 2004 with five students. Today, four universities have a PA program, with more than 200 students expected to graduate by 2012. Dr. Phillip Begg, associate dean at the University of Wolverhampton in Wolverhampton, England, talks with host Lisa Dandrea Lenell about the successes and obstacles to the beginning of this PA program, and why the program is essential to the United Kingdom's national health service.