The PA profession: A worldwide phenomenon revisited.

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Kathy Pedersen is an associate professor emeritus at the University of Utah School of Medicine in Salt Lake City, Utah, and department editor for Global Insights. Scott Smalley is president of the International Academy of Physician Associate Educators and the previous head of the Division of Clinical Associates and a lecturer at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. Richard Dehn is a professor emeritus in the College of Health and Human Services at Northern Arizona University's Phoenix Biomedical Campus, a professor in the Department of Biomedical Informatics at the University of Arizona College of Medicine in Phoenix, and editor-in-chief of JAAPA . The authors have disclosed no potential conflicts of interest, financial or otherwise.

Published: November 2024

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