Apprenticeship training course
Physician associate - integrated degree (level 7)
Working alongside registered doctors providing medical care as an integral part of a wider healthcare team.
- Qualification level
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7
Equivalent to master’s degree. - Typical duration
- 30 months
- Apprenticeship category
- Health and science
- Maximum funding
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£17,000
Maximum amount government will fund
for apprenticeship training. - Skills
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Skills an apprentice will learn
- Interpret the findings from a patient centred consultation and assess the need for further investigation, patient management and referral
- Formulate a diagnosis based on complex objective and subjective data
- Apply specialised clinical decision making techniques to select a diagnosis based on the available insight
- Critically evaluate and justify clinical decisions in cases with complex needs that involve many interacting factors
- Consult with your dedicated medical supervisor to inform clinical decision making where required
- Perform an extensive range of specialised procedural skills
- Perform specialised clinical procedures using knowledge of the complex indications, contraindications, complications and techniques
- Critically evaluate and assess changes in a patient’s condition and adapt patient management strategies/treatment within a timeframe suitable to the changing conditions
- Determine and implement appropriate specialised therapeutic interventions and/or prescriptions using clinical decision making techniques and medical judgement
- Formulate and implement a management plan with the patient, carers and healthcare professionals that takes into account complex interacting factors
- Build and sustain a clinician-patient relationship to foster informed patient choice and negotiated care decisions
- Communicate and engage effectively with all patients and carers regardless of age, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, social class, disability etc
- Actively involve patients and carers in their care and support them in managing their own health, wellbeing and illness
- Provide health promotion and disease prevention advice to patients and carers
- Design, implement and critically evaluate specialised assessment and observation techniques, and apply medical judgement across the patients’ life span
- Escalate matters to a senior doctor when a clinical situation is outside the boundaries of clinical competence for the role
- Manage the safety of patients, carers and other individuals through safeguarding and management of risk
- Assess own learning needs and engage in self-directed learning to review and improve medical practice within the scope of the role
- Work collaboratively to evaluate and meet the learning and development needs of other health professionals
- Act as a role model and mentor
- Produce clear, legible and contemporaneous records regarding patient consultations and all aspects of clinical and non-clinical work
- Complete patient records and justify the management plan and outcomes of the clinical decision making process(es)
- Adhere to all aspects of information governance requirements
- Perform specialised medically based assessments to inform the development of an individual medical management plan
- Design and deliver patient centred consultations which enable the patient and carers to express their concerns, expectations and understanding
- Take, and critically evaluate, a patient history relevant to the clinical situation and apply this insight to assessing complex interacting psychological and social factors
- Perform the full range of evidence based examinations and assessments tailored to the demands of the clinical situation
Full information on Physician associate - integrated degree (level 7) is available from the Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education.