title: Clinical management. Where medicine meets management. Assistants required.
abstract: The use of US-trained physician assistants is addressing a GP shortage in the West Midlands and is being extended to emergency care. PAs are trained in general and first-contact medicine and undergo rigorous, regular re-certification. Birmingham University is evaluating the scheme with a view to UK-based training and accreditation.
authors.forename: Ann
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Dix
mesh_terms: D002568:Certification; D002983:Clinical Competence; D004496:Education, Continuing; D005194:Family Practice; D005551:Foreign Professional Personnel / Q000193:education / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D007318:Inservice Training; D010823:Physician Assistants / Q000193:education / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D010821:Physicians, Family / Q000600:supply & distribution; D011320:Primary Health Care; D006113:United Kingdom; D014481:United States / Q000208:ethnology; D000078329:Workforce