In the latest president's bulletin Jeannie Watkins, president of the Faculty of Physician Associates (FPA) reflects on the positivity that physician associates received at the Royal College of Physicians’ annual conference, Medicine 2017. The FPA’s session ‘Physician associates: shaping the future of the medical workforce’ was very well attended, as were the lunchtime sessions offering a forum for debate and discussion.
This edition of the president’s bulletin also covers the issue of regulation, which was a hot topic at the conference and which the FPA continues to campaign for behind the scenes. Find out what you can do to get involved.