Guidelines of Courtesy Regarding Collaboration on the
Use of Clinical Training Sites

The following voluntary guidelines were approved by the PAEA Board of Directors at its May 1999 meeting in Atlanta, Georgia. These guidelines were drafted by the clinical coordinators in attendance at their retreat at the October 1998 PAEA Education Forum in Orlando, in response to the concerns raised by clinical coordinators over the years concerning the increasing demand placed on clinical sites by PA and other training programs, and the need for communication between PAEA member programs concerning overlapping use of sites.

PAEA, through its board of directors, recognizes and approves the following voluntary guidelines and statement on collaboration between physician assistant programs regarding use of clinical training sites:

1. PAEA member programs, through their directors of clinical education or clinical experience coordinators, agree to a spirit of cooperation and collaboration in the use of clinical training sites.
2. Programs recognize the need for clinical coordinator-to-clinical coordinator communication, and the need for all preceptors to be asked by students and clinical faculty if they are or have been preceptors for other PA programs – these programs to be notified if yes.
3. Programs that use a clinical site that has been identified as having been previously used by other programs will follow up with those programs concerning the quality of the experience.
4. Programs and clinical coordinators agree to be sensitive to the issues of preceptor burnout and student quality when collaborating on clinical training sites.

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