Regulation
In the United States, the profession is represented by the American Academy of Physician Assistants, and all Physician Assistants must graduate from a nationally accredited ARC - PA program as well as passing the national certification exam. In Canada, it is represented by the Canadian Association of Physician Assistants. Similar providers have different titles in other countries such as clinical officers in Africa, Clinical associates in South Africa, assistant medical officers in Malaysia, Physician Associate (formally known as Physician Assistant) in the UK, Assistant Doctors in China, and Feldsher in countries of the former Soviet Union.
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Famous quotes containing the word regulation:
“Nothing changes my twenty-six years in the military. I continue to love it and everything it stands for and everything I was able to accomplish in it. To put up a wall against the military because of one regulation would be doing the same thing that the regulation does in terms of negating people.”
—Margarethe Cammermeyer (b. 1942)
“Nothing can be more real, or concern us more, than our own sentiments of pleasure and uneasiness; and if these be favourable to virtue and unfavourable to vice, no more can be requisite to the regulation of our conduct and behavior.”
—David Hume (1711–1776)
“Lots of white people think black people are stupid. They are stupid themselves for thinking so, but regulation will not make them smarter.”
—Stephen Carter (b. 1954)