Ritsema Tamara S, Roberts Karen A, Watkins Jeannie S
Tamara S. Ritsema, MPH, MMSc, PA-C/R, is an assistant professor in the Department of Physician Assistant Studies at the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences in Washington, DC, and an adjunct senior lecturer in Physician Associate Education at the Institute of Medical and Biomedical Education at the St. George's, University of London, in London, England, in the United Kingdom. Karen A. Roberts, MS, PA-C/R, is a reader in Physician Associate Education at the Institute of Medical and Biomedical Education at the St. George's, University of London, in London, England, in the United Kingdom. Jeannie S. Watkins, PG Cert, PA-R, is a senior lecturer in Physician Associate Education at the Institute of Medical and Biomedical Education at the St. George's, University of London, in London, England, in the United Kingdom.
J Physician Assist Educ. 2019 Mar;30(1):57-60. doi: 10.1097/JPA.0000000000000233.
Physician associate (PA) education in the United Kingdom has grown substantially since the establishment of 4 PA education programs in the late 2000s. From those 4 programs in 2008, the number of universities educating PAs fell to a nadir of 2 programs in 2012 and then rose to 29 by the end of 2017. Due to program closures, the number of students enrolled in the early years fluctuated substantially. In 2008, 43 students entered PA education; in 2010, only 17 students started PA training, but in 2017, the number of students enrolled in PA programs soared to 853. Early in the course of PA education, programs were only offered in the greater London and West Midlands areas of England. As of 2017, PAs were being educated in all 4 countries of the United Kingdom, although the explosive growth in the number of programs is expected to slow as 2020 nears.
自21世纪末英国设立4个医师助理（PA）教育项目以来，PA教育有了显著发展。从2008年的这4个项目开始，开展PA教育的大学数量在2012年降至最低点，仅有2个项目，随后到2017年底增至29个。由于项目关闭，早期入学的学生人数波动很大。2008年，有43名学生进入PA教育；2010年，只有17名学生开始PA培训，但在2017年，PA项目的入学人数激增至853人。在PA教育早期，项目仅在英格兰的大伦敦地区和西米德兰兹郡提供。截至2017年，英国所有4个国家都在开展PA教育，不过随着2020年临近，预计项目数量的爆发式增长将会放缓。
