Declaration of meeting our standards 

Once every four years, the course lead of a physician associate (PA) or anaesthesia associate (AA) course must declare that they are meeting – or working towards meeting – our Standards for the delivery of PA and AA pre-qualification education.

The declaration also asks PA and AA course to comply and engage with our proactive quality assurance model. It marks the beginning of a course's four-year quality assurance cycle.

We publish each course's declaration and the expected next declaration date.

If we have serious concerns about a course's engagement with the process over the course of the cycle, or their ability to meet the standards, we will consider deferring their declaration while we do more work with them to get assurance on these issues.