2024/25 Taught Postgraduate Programme Catalogue
MSc Physician Associate Studies (Not recruiting in 2025/26)
| Programme code: | MSC-PAS | UCAS code: | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Duration: | 24 Months | Method of Attendance: | Full Time |
| Programme manager: | Dr Katie Cunningham | Contact address: | K.Cunningham@leeds.ac.uk |
Total credits: 180
Entry requirements:
Entry Requirements are available on the Course Search entry
School/Unit responsible for the parenting of students and programme:
School of Medicine - Leeds Institute of Medical Education
Examination board through which the programme will be considered:
Postgraduate Assessment Board
Programme specification:
The programme will appeal to graduates in life sciences and healthcare workers seeking career development in a profession allied to Medicine.
The new programme will meet the NHS requirement for workforce transformation and local demand.
It complies fully with the Department of Health’s approved curriculum and competency framework for Physician Associates (Competence and Curriculum Framework for the Physician Assistant, 2012 – the professional title was changed from Physician Assistant to Physician Associate in 2013).
The distinctiveness of our curriculum will be enhanced by embedding awareness and understanding of the Leeds “Core Programme Threads” relating to Ethics and Responsibility, Global and Cultural Insight, and Employability. Such that:
(i) The programme will enable students to be ethically self-aware and to exhibit professional attributes commensurate with practise as a Physician Associate
(ii) The programme will enable students to acknowledge and appreciate diversity and to engage with social, political, economic, legal, environmental, and technological perspectives appropriate to the NHS but also potentially transferrable to other Health Systems
(iii) The programme will enhance employability. This will be achieved by provision of evidence of transferable generic skills appropriate to the practice as a Physician Associate through an e portfolio and successful achievement of the learning outcomes demonstrated in success in internal exams. Role differentiation follows graduation and success in the national exam.
(iv) The profession is likely to be regulated
Year1 - View timetable
[Learning Outcomes, Transferable (Key) Skills, Assessment]
Compulsory modules:
| MEDS5100M | Classroom to Clinic 1 for Physician Associates Pre-requisite for: MEDS5120M and MEDS5121M Co-requisite for: MEDS5101M | 30 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
| MEDS5101M | Foundation of Clinical Practice 1 for Physician Associates Pre-requisite for: MEDS5120M and MEDS5121M Co-requisite for: MEDS5100M | 30 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) |
Year2 - View timetable
[Learning Outcomes, Transferable (Key) Skills, Assessment]
Compulsory modules:
| MEDS5120M | Classroom to Clinic 2 for Physician Associates Co-requisite for: MEDS5121M | 30 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
| MEDS5121M | Foundation of Clinical Practice 2 for Physician Associates Co-requisite for: MEDS5120M | 30 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
| MEDS5122M | Research in Clinical Practice | 60 credits | 1 Oct to 31 Aug |
Last updated: 19/12/2024 15:03:25
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