Session Learning Outcomes Day 2

Identifying Physician Associate Students' Preparedness Profiles in Primary Care

• Understand how PA students perceive their preparedness for primary care practice.

• Explore the contextual and experiential factors shaping PA students' perceptions of preparedness.

• Identify recurring themes in the narratives of PA students to inform tailored educational strategies for primary care training programs.

• Develop recommendations for PA education programs based on insights from participants' lived experiences.

Total immersion: Student experience of teaching using an immersion suite

• Introduction of a new mode of teaching

Turning Challenges into Opportunities: Launching Primary Care Simulation Sessions When Placement provisions Fell Short

• Adapt education strategies and address placement challenges 

• Understand the role of simulation in primary care education: exploring the benefits and limitations

• Reflect on the design and delivery of the simulation sessions

Enhancing Student Placements: Integrating PA Clinical Educators into Secondary Care

• Apply the principles of creating and managing specific PA placement providers to enhance student experience.

• Evaluate the pros and cons of using tariff to recruit Clinical Practice Educators.

Domestic violence day: A 'whole Faculty' story-telling approach to teaching

• Demonstrate the value of multidisciplinary learning for PAs; illustrate the effectiveness of story-telling as a learning tool

Introducing very short answer questions (VSAs) into a PA course

• Potential pitfalls of single best answer questions

• What are VSAs?

• How to construct a VSA 

• When not to use a VSA

Poster Presentations

From New Graduates to Academia  

• To understand how to support new graduates coming into academia. To understand the value of new graduates' perspectives in academia to current students and the School. To recognise the opportunities available to new graduates in academia. To highlight career opportunities for PAs outside of clinical roles. To recognise the skills new graduates possess to create educational resources, support the student admission process, and assessment marking. To recognise the advantages of academia in aiding transition to clinical practice 

The Path to Integrating Undergraduate (MPAS) and Postgraduate (MPAP) Physician Associate Programmes

• To understand the benefits and challenges of early integration between MPAS and MBBS. To recognise the impact of labels on the sense of identity among MPAS students. To recognise the anxieties felt by the MPAS and MPAP students during their integration. To identify the role of how peer influence can positively shape the dynamic between MPAS and MPAP students. To reflect on how the collaboration between MPAS and MPAP helped consolidate learning

“Why won’t you just stop eating takeaways and start exercising?” Why PAs need to know how to coach patients.

• understand the basic differences between health instruction and health coaching

• recognise the benefits of training PA students to apply coaching skills

• be able to formulate a training session for PA students 

Physician Associates:  How would they like their careers to develop

• To provide research evidence on careers pathways of PA's following graduation.

• To provide research evidence on the possible future development of the PA role.