The Physician Associate Podcast

We chat to Jade Moore, who has gone from being the only physician associate in Essex a few years ago to leading the PA course at Anglia Ruskin University, through a very busy career in primary care. You can contact Jade via [email protected] can connect with the Physician Associate PodcastTwitter - @PApodcastUKFacebook - @PApodcastUK

This week's guest is Professor Steve Dunn, the Chief Executive Officer of West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust.We talk all about how physician associates have grown and developed within the Trust and how the role might grow further into the future. Steve also gives some top tips for other Trusts who want to recruit and retain Physician Associates. If you'd like to get in touch with Steve directly, you can message him on Twitter @SteveDunnCEO You can also connect with the Physician Associate PodcastTwitter - @PApodcastUKFacebook - @PApodcastUK

In this week's episode, we talk about research done at the University of East Anglia into physician associates in the local secondary care systems in Norfolk, with Professor Susanne Lindqvist and Dr Stephanie Howard Wilsher.The research touches on topics that will apply to lots of different secondary care settings across the UK and for physician associates in every speciality and primary care too. There's also a fascinating talk about the identity of physician associates and how the role might develop in the future.You can contact Professor Lindqvist at [email protected] and with Dr Howard Wilsher at [email protected] can connect with the Physician Associate PodcastTwitter - @PApodcastUKFacebook - @PApodcastUK

In this episode, we're joined by Rachel Ditoro, who was one of the very first American trained Physician Assistants to come over and start working in the UK as a PA almost 20 years ago. You can connect with the Physician Associate PodcastTwitter - @PApodcastUKFacebook - @PApodcastUK

We speak to Ben Gowland from the General Practice Podcast about how Physician Associates fit into GP surgeries. We help PAs understand some of the terms that are connected to primary care like PCNs and about how PAs can join partnerships. You can check out Ben's amazing General Practice Podcast here And you can connect with the Physician Associate Podcast on social media Twitter @PApodcastUKFacebook @PApodcastUK

Clare Barton is an Assistant Director of regulation at the General Medical Council. Clare is currently responsible for leading the programme to bring Physician Associates and Anaesthesia Associates into the regulation of the GMC. The role of the GMC is to protect patients and improve medical education and practice across the UK.In the episode, Clare talks about how you can be involved too, by joining the community of interest and the email address for any individual queries is [email protected]  Clare has a background in education and regulation having previously worked at the University of Paisley and the Association of Certified Chartered Accountants. She joined the GMC in 2006 as Head of Applications, overseeing the teams that deal with applications from doctors all over the world to join the Register. She then became Assistant Director Revalidation, Licensing and Specialist Applications. She was responsible for the process required for those doctors seeking to gain entry to the specialist and GP registers. She oversaw the revalidation team which receives recommendations from Responsible Officers and makes the revalidation decisions for all doctors registered with a licence to practise. She also had responsibility for the team that dealt with applications to leave and restore to the register and to give up a licence. You can connect with the Physician Associate Podcast on social mediaTwitter @PApodcastUKFacebook @PApodcastUK

In this episode, we chat with Jo Piper, who is the programme director of the Kent, Surrey and Sussex School of Physician Associates.Jo joined the HEEKSS PA Programme back in April 2015 following many years working in IT for the banking sector.  The KSS School of Physician Associates is a collaborative project which supports the development of Physician Associates across Kent, Surrey and Sussex in the UK.You can contact Jo and find out more about the KSS School of PAs via their websitehttps://kssschoolofpas.org/ You can connect with the Physician Associate PodcastTwitter - @PApodcastUKFacebook - @PApodcastUK

The guest on this episode is Matt Aiello, who works with Health Education England as a National Programmes Lead. Matt talks about the development of Physician Associate Ambassadors, how Health Education England have supported the role, and his thoughts on the future of PAs in the UK.Click here to find out more about your local Health Education England region and connect with your local PA Ambassador You can connect with the Physician Associate PodcastTwitter - @PApodcastUKFacebook - @PApodcastUK

Physician Associates can play an important part in relieving a proportion of the clinical burden on GPs and their wider staff, but only with the right training and support in place. In this episode, we chat to Sheffield based PA Ria Agarwal who is an experienced primary care PA. Ria and her team have published a couple of papers recently about an innovative preceptorship year that they have launched to help newly qualified PAs transition into working in primary care effectively, and the levels of supervision that PAs might need as they begin working in GPs surgeries. With the expansion of Physician Associates in the primary care workforce, partly due to the Additional Roles Reimbursement Scheme, Ria kindly shares her experiences and 5 step plan for how best to support a newly qualified PA in primary care; to help GP based PAs and their employers get the best out of their employment. You can find Ria on Twitter @riaagarwal19 and the research papers discussed in the episode belowPaper 1 -  Preceptorship scheme for newly qualified physician associates working in general practice in SheffieldPaper 2 - Clinical supervision of physician associates (PAs) in primary care: who, what and how is it done?And you can connect with the Physician Associate Podcast on social media tooFacebook @PApodcastUKTwitter @PApodcastUK

In this episode, we chat to Professor Phil Begg, who was instrumental in establishing the Physician Associate profession in the UK. You can get in touch with Professor Begg via email ([email protected]) And you can connect with the Physician Associate PodcastTwitter - @PApodcastUKFacebook - @PApodcastUK More about Professor Phil Begg Professor Begg has been a clinician for almost 40 years, and is an international leader in his clinical field, with his main interest in audiological and vestibular medicine.He leads a research team currently working on a £1.5 million NIHR funded study developing a totally implantable cochlear implant, his research was recently featured in a BBC documentary ‘Surgeons at the edge of life’. He has published over 100 papers and spoken at conferences internationally for over 30 years.Professor Begg is a lifelong clinical educator, and has held a variety of academic appointments including past Associate Dean at the University of Wolverhampton, where, with his team, he developed and launched the first PA programme in the UK in 2004. Phil has been part of the small group of dedicated educators and practitioners that started the development of the Physician Associate in the UK over 18 years ago. He is also an examiner on the UK National PA exam.In 2008, he advised the South African Government in the development of education programmes for the Clinical Associates and he has assisted a number of international developments of new PA programmes, he is currently working with colleagues in Switzerland to introduce the PA concept into the Swiss medical system. He is one of the four original Founding Trustees of the International Academy of Physician Associate Educators (IAPAE), in 2007. He has served as past President and Chairman of International Academy of PA Educators and the UK & Ireland Board for PA Education. He is currently Director at Large for Europe and the UK for IAPAE.He was also privileged to serve for 10 years on the Council for Assisting Refugee Academics (CARA), rescuing at risk academics from conflict areas across the world and placing them in a safe university in the West, until repatriation was an option.He is proud to hold an academic position as full visiting professor at the University of Kentucky (USA), along with honorary positions at the Universities of Birmingham (UK) medical school, Aston University and Brunel University (UK) in medical robotics. He is also an Executive Director at the Royal Orthopaedic Hospital in Birmingham Europe’s largest single specialist hospital for orthopaedics and a national center for Orthopaedic oncology.