Editing Physician assistant (section)

==== Regulation (Canada) ====
Physician assistants are currently practicing across Canada in the Canadian Armed Forces as commissioned officers in domestic and international environments and have been in practice since the 1960s.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.canada.ca/en/department-national-defence/news/2016/06/canadian-armed-forces-creates-new-officer-occupation-for-physician-assistants.html|title=Canadian Armed Forces creates new officer occupation for Physician Assistants|first=National|last=Defence|date=June 3, 2016|website=gcnws}}</ref> Physician assistants outside of the Canadian Armed Forces practice usually in the public health care system in the provinces of Manitoba, Ontario, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Alberta.{{citation needed|date=June 2021}} Physician assistants have been regulated in Manitoba since 1999 and in New Brunswick since 2009<ref>{{cite web |url= https://capa-acam.ca/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Historical-Events_Sept_2017_FINAL.pdf|title= Canada's Physician Assistant Historical Timeline|date=2017 |website=capa-acam.ca |access-date=2021-04-04}}</ref> and are registrants of their respective provincial college of physicians and surgeons. Physician assistants in Ontario were introduced in 2007 to the public health system as a joint venture between the Ontario Ministry of Health and the Ontario Medical Association.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.healthforceontario.ca/en/Home/Health_Providers/Physician_Assistants?_ga=2.196839212.1021625597.1593876282-472451766.1593876282|title=Physician Assistants|website=www.healthforceontario.ca}}</ref> In PEI, Alberta, Nova Scotia, Ontario, and Saskatchewan, PA is a regulated profession.
Physician assistants are represented by the Canadian Association of Physician Assistants, which originally was formed in October 1999.<ref name="CAPA history" />
As of 2023, PAs scope of practice in Canada is described at their website:
:The PA's scope of practice is determined on an individual basis and formally outlined in a practice contract or agreement between the supervising physician(s), the PA and often the facility or service where the PA will work. Activities may include conducting patient interviews, histories and physical examinations; performing selected diagnostic and therapeutic interventions or procedures; and counseling patients on preventive health care.{{citation needed|date=May 2023}}