Approving PA and AA courses
Among other functions, we approve all courses which may lead to the award of a PA or AA qualification in the UK.
How we quality assure physician associate and anaesthesia associate courses
As part of our statutory duty, we set standards for providers of physician associate (PA) and anaesthesia associate (AA) courses, and we regularly check those are being met. Our quality assurance (QA) framework describes how we do this through our approval, proactive, and reactive QA processes.
Proactive quality assurance
We use our proactive quality assurance processes to check that all PA and AA courses are continuing to meet our Standards for the delivery of PA and AA pre-qualification education. We also look for excellence, innovation and notable practice in PA and AA education.
Reactive quality assurance
When there is evidence that our standards are not being met, we monitor and take action where required.
New PA and AA programmes reports
As part of the quality assurance process we collect evidence and produce reports on the results of the visits and monitoring that we carry out.
