Becker's Healthcare January 4, 2024
The term “physician associate” is not as new as some might think.
In 2021, the American Academy of Physician Assistants voted to adopt “physician associate” as the official title for the profession. The organization is now called the American Academy of Physician Associates, but its name — and the new professional title — are not novel.
Though PAs were first called “physician’s assistants” at the advent of the profession in the 1960s, historical records show “physician associate” was actually used in the 1970s to describe certain brackets of the profession, according to the PA History Society.
The Board of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences issued a report in 1970 classifying PAs in three different categories —...
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