This is a one year (12-month) academic fellowship to help the clinician acquire the skills necessary to provide the most appropriate educational experience for developing physician assistants. The PA academic fellow will commit 80% of his/her time towards academic efforts and 20% is allocated for continued clinical practice.
Activities
Meet with Dr. Mitcham on regular basis to achieve specific learning objectives
Read assignments related to Problem Based Learning and observe various Clinical Problem Solving Groups. Maintain a log of those experiences and review with lead course coordinator. Review learning objectives for semester cases for clarity and comprehensiveness.
Meet with faculty from the MUSC Center for Academic Excellence (CAE) for instruction on development of learning objectives, testing methodology, presentation skills.
Meet with PA program clinical year faculty and AHEC personnel to identify one rural, medically underserved county to be targeted for clinical site development.
Communicate with Office of Student Diversity to assess student support services and resources that are available.
Network with the Simulation Educational Center to assess support services, training and available resources for PA education.
Attend the AAPA/PAEA Conference
Instruction
Attend the Building Academic Teaching Skills course taught by Dr. Mitcham.
Participate in the development and refinement of the physical diagnosis course. Working with the faculty to review the goals, learning objectives and teaching methods.
Review the CPS cases for anticipated learning outcomes. Monitor the learning objectives from 50% of the CPS groups for uniformity in learning. Participate as a group facilitator as needed.
Attend PAEA Conference: register for the Faculty Development Institute Workshop
Attend all Apple Tree Society meetings
Review WebCT technology and review faculty utilization of this technology.
Attend meetings of the Curriculum Committee
Fundamentals of Clinical Medicine
Develop one or two lectures per semester in conjunction with the course coordinator. Post lecture notes and presentation information to WebCT. Present the material in class and have the lecture recorded by Tegrity. Review the recorded lectures and written student feedback with faculty mentor
Implement one exam using WebCT quizzes, conduct item analysis and student performance evaluation
Clinical Application:
Facilitate implementation of the “Towards No Tobacco” curriculum at one middle school class.
Participate in collection of outcomes assessment information.
Develop two lectures for this course and implement lecture and laboratory instruction. Develop assessment tool for learning outcomes for lecture and lab.
Recruitment
Serve as a member of the Admissions Committee
Participate in the interview process with applicants
Develop communication channels with guidance counselors, faculty and student organizations associated with two of the six Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) in South Carolina.
Travel to these campuses at least twice during the semester for person to person contact.
Mentor applicants from educationally or socioeconomic disadvantaged backgrounds
Clinical Year
Read the “One Minute Preceptor”
Attend preceptor recruitment and training with AHEC personnel
Develop a recruitment strategy for additional preceptors within the previously targeted SC County.
Implement the recruitment strategy in the targeted SC County
Coordinate student assignments to new clinical sites with the clinical year coordinator and staff
Visit three preceptor sites to educate preceptors student evaluation and to assess student performance
Participate in summative evaluation of second year students
Clinical Practice
Obtain SC license to practice.
Provide healthcare services the equivalent of one day per week
To apply for the Physician Assistant Academic Fellowship, click the link below and search for the Requisition ID 047315
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