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Range of Educational Sessions
Available to Faculty at APAP
Semiannual Meeting
Workshops, Roundtables, Panel Presentations, and
Pearls
Wednesday, June 2, 8:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.
8:00-9:00 a.m./Workshop 1501
Creating a Comprehensive Summative Evaluation Using Multiple Choice
Questions, Standardized Patients, and SOAP Notes
Randy D. Danielsen, PhD, PA-C
1. Describe how multiple choice questions, standardized patients,
and SOAP notes can be integrated into a comprehensive summative evaluation
to be given to PA students near the end of their educational experience.
Room N264
8:00-9:00 a.m./Workshop 4038
Teaching in the Outpatient Setting: Skills for Clinical Preceptors*
Grace Landel, PA-C, MEd, and Monica Morrison, PA-C
1. Understand some of the issues inherent in adding a student to an
outpatient practice;
2. Learn how to set up a good learning environment for a student;
3. Define five skills for clinical teaching, present the basis for
them, and give a demonstration.
Room N260
8:00-9:00 a.m./Roundtable 1500
The Clinical Coordinator: How to Save the Endangered Species
Susan Symington, MPAS, PA-C, and Michel Statler, MLA, PA-C
1. Clarify the role of the clinical coordinator;
2. Identify internal and external resources available to the clinical
coordinator; 3. Identify techniques and methods to avoid burn-out,
job dissatisfaction, and turnover.
Room N262
9:15-10:15 a.m./Roundtable 1502
Attrition of PA Students — Has the Arena Changed?
Robert D. Hadley, PhD, PA-C, and Gilbert A. Boissonneault, PhD,
PA-C
1. Bring together faculty from many PA programs to discuss the impact
of student attrition and how it may have changed over the years;
2. Examine reasons why students drop out of PA programs (e.g., lack
of academic preparation, student maturity, and prior health care experience,
etc.);
3. Explore the effect of increased entry standards (i.e., for Master’s
programs) on the type of students entering PA programs;
4. Consider whether attrition may be accounted for by setting class
size or through recruiting and interviewing strategies.
Room N262
9:15-10:15 a.m./Roundtable 4051
Improving Chronic Disease Care: The Role for PA Educators*
John Riley, MS, PA-C
1. Describe the quality deficiencies in the majority of chronic disease
care delivered in the United States;
2. Identify the five core competencies recommended by the Institute
of Medicine for health professions education;
3. Differentiate “usual” chronic disease care from care
available through effective management;
4. Identify the reasons for the quality problem and how it impacts
the PA educator’s role;
5. Utilize the information presented and strategize ways to integrate
chronic disease management principles into PA curriculum and training.
Room N260
9:15-10:15 a.m./Workshop 1503
“Who Will Keep the Public Healthy?” The Ecological Model
and Core Competencies in Your Curriculum
Martha Petersen, MPH, CHES, PA-C
1. Describe the concepts leading to the development of “Who Will
Keep the Public Healthy?” by the Institute of Medicine of the
National Academies;
2. Define key aspects of the ecological model;
3. Delineate the core competencies detailed in the report;
4. Analyze the incorporation of the model and competencies within
programs’ curricula.
Room N264
10:30-11:15 a.m./Panel Presentation 1504
Infusing Multicultural Concepts into PA Classroom and Clinical
Education Activities
Marianne Vail, MS, PA-C, and Mary Farrell, MS
1. Describe multicultural curricular design initiatives for PA
education in an urban university setting;
2. Express process evaluation methods for determining outcomes of
multicultural education;
3. Describe methods of providing clinical clerkships in settings with
diverse populations.
Room N262
10:30-11:30 a.m./Workshop1505
Developing and Implementing a PA Master’s Curriculum
Jim Stoehr, PhD, and Alison Essary, MHPE, PA-C
1. Describe the competencies or skills students must acquire in a
PA master’s curriculum;
2. Discuss resources needed to develop and administer the PA master’s
curriculum;
3. Explain methods used to implement and manage a PA master’s
curriculum. Room N264
11:30-11:45 a.m./Pearl 1507
Teaching Ethics with Popcorn and a Movie
Karen O. Skaff, RDH, PhD
1. Learn new ways of teaching ethics that transcend time and place;
2. Reflect on improved student outcomes following ethics instruction.
Room N260
11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m./Roundtable 1506
To Be or Not to Be (On the Web)
David Day, PA-C, MPAS, EdS
1. Understand differences in Web-enhanced, Web-based, and Web-centric
courses;
2. Identify and discuss specific components that add to or detract
from on-line education;
3. Identify and discuss specific courses/modules that can be enhanced
through use of the Internet.
Room N262
12:00-12:15 p.m./Pearl 4060
Innovations in Teaching Ethics and Professionalism to PA Students*
Marshall Blesofsky, PA-C, MPH
1. Describe and demonstrate how PA students can be taught to use the
American Board of Internal Medicine's Elements of Professionalism
during the clinical training;
2. Describe and demonstrate how PA students can utilize these elements
according to the Robins, Braddock, Fryer-Edwards method and apply
them to authentic situations involving breaches of professional behavior.
Room N260
12:15-1:15 p.m./Workshop 4061
What’s Out There? Biological and Chemical Weapons Preparedness:
A Workshop on Continuing Medical Education for PAs, Educators, and
Students*
Kevin C. Lohenry, MPAS, PA-C; Kristine M. Healy, MPH, PA-C; and
Kristin Foulke, MPH, PA-C
1. Describe key topics for terrorism preparedness;
2. List skills and attitudes needed for Pas to respond to terrorism
or its threat; 3. Describe the types of continuing medical education
that are available to help PA clinicians, educators, and students
with preparedness;
4. Discuss the educational resources that are useful for PA clinicians,
educators, and students;
5. Discuss resources that will enhance PA program curricula.
Room N258
12:30-12:45 p.m./Pearl 4062
Oral Cancer Screening: A Brief Review for Faculty*
Karen O. Skaff, RDH, PhD; Doris Rapp, PharmD, PA-C; Dean K. White,
DDS; and Margaret Hamilton, MSPH
1. Update faculty about the silent crisis of dental disease and the
need for involvement of non-dental providers in the early recognition
of oral cancer;
2. Review information, methods, and instructional resources (including
a free video) for the use of faculty within their programs;
3. Utilize standard techniques (demonstrated in video) for teaching
a quick examination of the oral cavity, head, and neck;
4. Assess changes in perceptions using pre/post tests that faculty
may also use with students.
Room N260
1:00-1:15 p.m./Pearl 1508
PA Graduates and the Neuroscience Fellowship
Kenneth E. Korber, PA
1. Identify specific, unmet needs associated with changes in resident
physician workplace restrictions;
2. Provide a blueprint for integrating the PA clinical model into
this emerging health care space;
3. Align PA postgraduate training and practice opportunities with
some of these unmet needs.
Room N260
1:00-2:00 p.m./Workshop 1509
PA Program in a Box: Should We Replace the Traditional Didactic
Year?
Patricia E. Kelly, PA-C, MHS, EdD
1. Review and discuss the historical antecedents of the traditional
PA didactic educational model;
2. Compare and contrast several currently utilized non-residential
models of PA didactic education;
3. Review and discuss the educational outcomes of traditional models
of didactic medical teaching and learning;
4. Contrast these outcomes with those derived from non-residentially
based medical education;
5. Review and critique a proposed integrative model.
Room N264
1:30-1:45 p.m./Pearl 4066
HIPAA: Privacy Training for Students in the Medical Fields*
Margaret B. Hansen, MPAS, PA-C
1. Describe interdisciplinary student training in HIPAA, using both
lecture and on-line formats;
2. Discuss the model of student HIPAA training used by the University
of South Dakota School of Medicine PA program.
Room N260
*Indicates CME credit
Educational sessions designed by APAP but not eligible
for Category I (Preapproved) CME are in the CME 1500 series. Adjunct
symposia, CME sessions provided by the pharmaceutical industry or
third-party communication companies are in the CME 1600 series. Workshops
are included in the CME 4000 series. Sessions that do not have identifying
numbers are not eligible for AAPA Category I CME (Preapproved) CME
credit.
Please contact Al Baggett, abaggett@aapa.org, if you
have questions about content; and LaTasha Taylor, ltaylor@aapa.org,
with questions about logistics.
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