Asia is one of the first regions to educate and train an alternate clinical practitioner and share medical responsibilities with clinical practitioners such as the feldshers providing wartime medical support as early as the 17th century. During the next century, Malaysia developed their own auxiliary medical person with the title apothecaries and medical dresser in 1786. In 1951, India educated a medical support cadre called health auxiliaries. Today, there are more than seventeen different PA and PA Analogue education qualifications in sixteen countries of Asia.