In this episode, we chat to Professor Phil Begg, who was instrumental in establishing the Physician Associate profession in the UK. You can get in touch with Professor Begg via email ([email protected]) And you can connect with the Physician Associate PodcastTwitter - @PApodcastUKFacebook - @PApodcastUK More about Professor Phil Begg Professor Begg has been a clinician for almost 40 years, and is an international leader in his clinical field, with his main interest in audiological and vestibular medicine.He leads a research team currently working on a £1.5 million NIHR funded study developing a totally implantable cochlear implant, his research was recently featured in a BBC documentary ‘Surgeons at the edge of life’. He has published over 100 papers and spoken at conferences internationally for over 30 years.Professor Begg is a lifelong clinical educator, and has held a variety of academic appointments including past Associate Dean at the University of Wolverhampton, where, with his team, he developed and launched the first PA programme in the UK in 2004. Phil has been part of the small group of dedicated educators and practitioners that started the development of the Physician Associate in the UK over 18 years ago. He is also an examiner on the UK National PA exam.In 2008, he advised the South African Government in the development of education programmes for the Clinical Associates and he has assisted a number of international developments of new PA programmes, he is currently working with colleagues in Switzerland to introduce the PA concept into the Swiss medical system. He is one of the four original Founding Trustees of the International Academy of Physician Associate Educators (IAPAE), in 2007. He has served as past President and Chairman of International Academy of PA Educators and the UK & Ireland Board for PA Education. He is currently Director at Large for Europe and the UK for IAPAE.He was also privileged to serve for 10 years on the Council for Assisting Refugee Academics (CARA), rescuing at risk academics from conflict areas across the world and placing them in a safe university in the West, until repatriation was an option.He is proud to hold an academic position as full visiting professor at the University of Kentucky (USA), along with honorary positions at the Universities of Birmingham (UK) medical school, Aston University and Brunel University (UK) in medical robotics. He is also an Executive Director at the Royal Orthopaedic Hospital in Birmingham Europe’s largest single specialist hospital for orthopaedics and a national center for Orthopaedic oncology.

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