As part of the recruitment process for many of our health-related courses, students are invited to attend a selection event. As part of this event, you can get involved in meeting and interviewing the students with regard to their suitability for the course they have applied for (Nursing, Paramedic Science and Out of Hospital Care, Pharmacy, and Medicine). In addition, there are opportunities to participate as a panel member on interview panels with potential employers as part of the student selection process for clinical placements. The University currently uses values based recruitment and full training in our selection procedures is given if you would like to get involved in this area.
There are a number of different ways you can get involved in teaching sessions. Opportunities include condition-specific seminars, communication and consultation skills, clinical skills, and clinical examinations. Details of each session can be found in the PCPI Handbook.
Programme Management Boards meet to discuss all aspects of individual courses to ensure students receive a high standard of training and education. PCPI participants attend these boards to tell the group about PCPI involvement and influence.
Modules are taught through a range of methods, including PCPI participants sharing their experiences, which is a very valuable part of helping students learn. PCPI participants’ experiences can be extremely valuable in identifying gaps and priorities in the subjects we teach. As new courses are developed, PCPI participants are involved from initial conception through to course approval.
PCPI participants act as model patients for mock clinical tests (e.g., electrocardiogram (ECGs)) or around diagnostic examination, for example respiratory, cardiovascular or abdominal examinations. They then provide feedback to the students on their communication skills.
An OSCE comprises of a number of stations within a circuit, every student rotates around the circuit completing each station within the circuit. Each station can last between 5-15 minutes. OSCEs are designed to test clinical skill competence in skills such as communication, clinical examination, prescribing, etc. Opportunities for PCPI participants to be involved in OSCEs include recounting a social history, medication history and acting as model patients around diagnostic examination.
Research opportunities have recently involved reading applications for funding and adding a patient’s perspective to these, and contributing to focus groups regarding point of care testing.
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