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When was the first anesthesiology assistant graduate education program established in the US?

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The AA profession came into being in the 1960s, when we had a serious shortage of anesthesia professionals in the U.S.

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The goal was to create a new master’s level program that would enable graduates to deliver anesthesia care under the direction of a physician anesthesiologist. The first AA programs were established at Emory University in Atlanta and Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland.

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