In this episode, we meet Bob and Mark from Meducate Academy and learn about their role in helping PA students develop their communication skills and more importantly their hands on skills with patients.

Bob is the founder and training director of Meducate Academy Ltd which was created 5 years ago as a student centred educational service providing medical schools with high fidelity simulation. 

Meducate uses Associate Clinical Educators (ACE) alongside Experienced clinicians teaching student Physician Associates how to examine a patient. Mark has worked with Bob as one of Meducate's senior ACEs.

In this podcast Bob and Mark talk about their work in detail and how it impacts on the students experience. As Bob says: "We are like simulated patients on Steroids! We take simulation to the next level"You can contact Bob via the website www.meducateacademy.com or check out the Blog: www.associateclinicaleducators.com

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In this episode, I chat with both Helen Milllott - programme lead for PA studies at the University of Leeds - and Sarah Howarth - Uni of Leeds who coordinates and evaluates PA student placements and research.

We also chat about some of their research into physician associate students and how to protect their wellbeing. 

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In this episode, we find out about how physician associates can work in breast surgery, from PA Laura Smith and her breast surgeon consultant Sue Down. 

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In this episode I chat to Consultant Geriatrician Dr Rebecca Whiting and PA Paris Sorrell Walker about the varied role of Physician Associates in geriatric medicine and the MDT, scope for development and specialist areas.

You can get in touch with Dr Whiting on [email protected] and with Paris on [email protected] or @ParisSorrell on Twitter

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The RCP are developing a new revision product for Student Physician Associates and PAs - but they need help to develop hundreds of questions in a short space of time.

We hear from Dr Laura Gordge who is involved in the project, and talk wider about the Physician Associate National Exam as well.

Find out more about writing good exam questions on this week’s episode and click here to go to the question writer sign up website 

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The COVID19 pandemic had a effect on healthcare systems across the world, and also disrupted the education of healthcare students at universities.

In this episode, I'm delighted to be joined by Virginia L. Valentin (DrPH, PA-C, Associate Professor of Physician Assistant Studies) to talk about her paper which examined the impact of COVID on the training of PA students in the USA and across the globe.

You can get in touch with Virginia directly -  [email protected]

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In this episode, I'm joined by two PAs from Wye Valley Trust, to discuss their Advance Practice Academy, which is an in-house teaching program for our PAs, ACPs and student PAs.

Their  teaching program aims to help PAs retain our generalist knowledge and help with quality improvement projects.

You can get in touch with Abi at [email protected]

and Alys at [email protected]

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Plabable for Physician Associates is a company who have produced an online resource, including questions and mock exams that can help physician associate students to revise.

In this episode I chat with Chaima Hale, who explains all about Plabale for PAs and talks us through some of the challenges & rewards she's faced in establishing  a company based around physician associates.

You can find out more about Plabable for PAs on their website 

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In this episode I'm joined by Dr Sina Ghadiri, a dermatology registrar, to discuss his recent publication - Physician associates: an asset for physician training and a 21st-century NHS?

We touch on some of the good things and challenging things of PAs and Doctors working together and how PAs can be seen as an asset to the NHS.

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In this episode, I'm joined by Irfan Mehmood who is an anaesthesia associate.Together we compare the AA and PA roles, and chat through some of the challenges that are common to both professions.

We also discuss what GMC regulation might mean for PAs and AAs. You can find our more about AA's on their website.

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