Postgraduate Studentships - Search for funding opportunities.
Postgraduate Studentships - Search for funding opportunities.
Study Details: MSc; Full-Time; 2 years
Physician Associates will play a vital role in the future of the NHS, improving the lives of thousands of patients. Once qualified, you’ll be set for a career as a versatile, dynamic healthcare professional. Working under the supervision of a doctor, you’ll be in constant contact with patients, making a difference where it counts.
If you hold a good honours (2:1 or above) in biological sciences, particularly biomedical or human biology and are considering a career in healthcare this could be the perfect route for you. You’ll be part of an intelligent, hard-working and caring team at UEA. And you’ll progress with excellent career prospects within a local trust where patients are at the heart of what you do.
The Physician Associate is as an indispensible new figure in the structure of UK healthcare. You will support both doctors and patients by providing diagnostic and therapeutic treatment, developing care management strategies, and working with patients’ families.
Being a Physician Associate can mean greater contact time with patients, giving you more responsibility for their experience. Working under supervision of doctors, Physician Associates are present in every aspect of healthcare. At UEA, you will develop the versatility to become the complete healthcare professional.
This course was created as a direct response to new healthcare job opportunities in Norfolk and Suffolk. These opportunities are with local acute hospitals, who have partnered with us to develop the programme including: Ipswich Hospital, James Paget University Hospital, The Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital, The Queen Elizabeth Hospital King’s Lynn and West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trusts. In other words, the course has been created with your future in mind. Not only this, but the work of Physician Associates is on the increase across the NHS, with recognition from the Royal College of Physicians.
Interviews for candidates who are shortlisted will take place at the start of October. Exact details of interview dates will be updated here shortly.
Telephone / Skype interviews are not possible for this course.
Applicants are required to submit two references with their application – one related to their most recent Academic study, while the other may be a personal reference.
Academic study should have been completed within the last 5 years.
•UK/EU Students: £9,000 per year – This course is not suitable for international students.
Bursary
For the 2015/16 intake, Health Education East of England are funding £8,500 of the tuition fee (no application necessary), so applicants will only be expected to pay £500 per year.
Foundation skills for Physician’s Associates
This module is about preparing students to study to become PAs. It will equip students with the competence and confidence to practice their basic clinical skills in the workplace which will allow them to efficiently utilise and build on their workplace learning during the remaining course. There will also be knowledge based lectures covering background clinical science and social science as well as some learning theory and aspects of law, ethics and professionalism. Following formative assessment opportunities in the skills laboratory students will be encouraged to practice basic procedural skills in the work place under supervision. Once they have had 2 observed work-place summative assessments for each skill they will be eligible to receive a certificate which allows them to deliver these skills without direct supervision at a physician’s assistant (NOT associate) level of practice.
General Medicine
This module provides the background learning for the majority of the general medical specialities including cardiology, respiratory, gastroenterology, renal and diabetes as well as geriatric medicine. Clinical placements provide an opportunity to reinforce campus learning and develop and build on clinic skills learnt in module 1. Students who have not yet completed all their summative work based assessments of procedural skills will have further opportunity to demonstrate competence.
Surgery
This module provides the background learning for the major surgical specialities including gastroenterological, orthopaedic, urological surgery as well as obstetrics and gynaecology. Clinical placements provide an opportunity to reinforce campus learning and develop and build on clinical skills learnt in modules 1 and 2. Students who have not yet completed all their summative work based assessments of procedural skills will have further opportunity to demonstrate competence which must be done by the end of this module. Written and practical OSCE examinations at the end of module 3 are blueprinted across the first year (modules 1-3) of the course and determine that students have made sufficient progress to move to year 2 of the course.
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