Physician associates (PAs) are healthcare professionals with a generalist medical education who work alongside our doctors providing medical care as an integral part of the multidisciplinary team. PAs work under the supervision of a doctor but can work autonomously with appropriate support.
The role includes:
- taking medical histories from patients
- carrying out physical examinations
- seeing patients with undifferentiated diagnoses
- seeing patients with long-term chronic conditions
- formulating differential diagnoses and management plans
- carrying out diagnostic and therapeutic procedures
- developing and delivering appropriate treatment
- requesting and interpreting diagnostic studies
- providing health promotion and disease prevention advice for patients
Abida Chowdhury
Physicians Associate
Female
Arooj Saleem
Physicians Associate
Female
Sabbah Hamid
Physicians Associate
Female
Samuel Pearce
Physicians Associate
Male