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Joint Task Force on the Future of the PA Workforce. Notes from the Field April 14-16, 2011 Washington DC. Session Overview.
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Joint Task Force on the Future of the PA Workforce Notes from the Field April 14-16, 2011 Washington DC
Session Overview The charge of the task force is to develop recommendations which can be implemented by AAPA and PAEA for the growth of the PA workforce in a manner that maintains quality and assures the profession’s maximum impact on the health of the nation through 2020. The Task Force held an initial Design Session in January 2011 to develop a preliminary list of recommendations for the Boards of AAPA and PAEA to support the growth of the PA Profession. After the initial Design Session, a report was created summarizing the first meeting, a series of interviews were conducted and distributed through the website, and a rough simulation model was built to explore the variables that will drive the number of practicing PA’s in the future. This Design Session is focused on developing the final list of recommendations from the Task Force. Additional resources and information about the work of the Task Force can be found at http://www.innovationlabs.com/pa_future/
Reconnecting With Session I • Assignment • This activity will be done in pairs. Please find a partner – preferably someone you don’t know very well. • On the white boards in the plenary you will find four posters. Each poster contains the preliminary recommendations developed at our meeting in January. These recommendations are divided into the following four categories: • Pipeline and Admissions • Didactic Curriculum • Clinical Curriculum • Clinical Practice and Distribution • Your pair has been provided four sheets of green dots to ‘invest’ on some of the recommendations. Your pair will use the dots to ‘invest’ in the recommendations on each poster that will help us meet our objectives for responsibly growing the PA and meet our objectives to: • To ensure a diverse workforce • To provide quality infrastructure for PA education programs • To maximize the distribution of PAs across practice areas and geographies • To ensure quality across the board • On each poster you can ‘invest’ your dots in any way you want – using all four dots for one recommendation or dividing the four dots among several recommendations. Please ONLY invest four dots per poster.
Identify Gaps in Recommendations - Assignment • There are four small groups. • Group 1: The objective is to ensure a diverse workforce • Group 2: The objective is to provide quality infrastructure for PA education programs • Group 3: The objective is to maximize the distribution of PAs across practice areas and geographies • Group 4: The objective is to ensure quality across the board • Using the part of the matrix of recommendations provided, review the recommendations and ensure these recommendations will help the PA profession achieve the objective. Identify where there are any gaps. Add additional recommendations where necessary. • In looking for gaps one way to think about it is to consider the various types of recommendations: • Advocacy/Policy Recommendations • Research Recommendations • Practice/Process Recommendations • Structure Recommendations • Be prepared to share the results of your work with the other groups.
iThink Recommendations - Assignment • During our session in January we asked the group how many PAs ‘should’ there be in 2020 and the group roughly came up with about 130,000. Using that number as a target we developed a ‘scenario’ in which we can achieve that target. That scenario suggests we can achieve the target of having 130,000 PAs in practice by 2020 if we increase the number of programs to 194 (39 more), the number of faculty to 2100 (adding 440 more), and the number of clinical sites to 7400 (adding 2150 more). • Assignment • This is an activity in four small groups. • In your group come up with recommendations for how the PA profession should grow your focus area by the specific number. As you develop your recommendations please consider the following as part of your recommendations: • What policies (or rules) could/should be changed? • What assumptions do we have that could/should be challenged? • What current structures could/should be changed to help achieve this growth?. • What practices/processes could/should be changed to help achieve this growth? • What research should be done to help achieve this growth? • What changes will likely take place over the next 9 years? Group 1: Pipeline Over the next 5 years you need to grow the number of people wanting to be a PA and apply to a PA program by 2144 (currently we have about 6500 people in their first year of a PA program. By 2016 we will need to have about 8644 people in their first year). Group 2: Programs Over the next 5 years you need to grow the number of PA programs by 39 (currently we have 155 programs. By 2016 we will need to have about 194 PA programs in the pipeline. Group 3: Faculty Over the next 5 years you need to grow the number of PA faculty by 440 (currently we have about 1670 faculty. By 2016 we will need to have about 2100 PA faculty. Group 4: Clinical Sites Over the next 5 years you need to grow the number of clinical sites by 2150 (currently we have 5250 clinical sites. By 2016 we will need to have about 7400 clinical sites). You have 60 minutes to complete this assignment, at which point you will report your work to the rest of the group. Use the white boards for collecting ideas and for your final report.
iThink Recommendations, Part II - Assignment Now that you have identified ways to grow the PA profession in specific ways, part II of this activity is to challenge yourselves to identify what you would do differently if you had to double the number (grow to twice as large as you’ve been discussing in part I). Group 1: Pipeline What would you do differently if you had to grow the number of participants by 4288 and have about 11,288 people in their first year by 2016? Group 2: Programs What would you do differently if you had to grow the number of programs by 78 in the pipeline by 2016 (in order to have 233 PA programs by 2020)? Group 3: Faculty What would you do differently if you had to grow the number of PA faculty by 880 (having about 2550 by 2016)? Group 4: Clinical Sites What would you do differently if you had to grow the number of clinical sites by 4300 (having 9550 clinical sites by 2016)?
Exploring How Round 1 - Assignment • This round of work is focused on continuing to explore ‘how’ we might do some of the things we are suggesting as recommendations. For this activity we’ll use the posters we worked on last night as well as the work we’ve completed so far today. Each group will focus on one of the parts of the continuum: • Group1: Pipeline and Admissions • Group 2: Didactic Curriculum • Group 3: Clinical Curriculum • Group 4: Clinical Practice and Distribution • Assignment • For your focus area, pick two of the recommendations for responsibly growing the PA profession (using the poster and the work we’ve completed so far today) and develop an ‘implementation plan’ for those two recommendations. For each recommendation, answer the question: How should this recommendation be implemented? • Make a list of all the things that need to happen in order for that recommendation to be implemented • Make a list of who needs to be involved or included in some way • Develop a timeline of activities – what needs to happen when? • Prepare your plans on the marker board. At the end of this round, you will share your plan with some of the other groups. You have about 60 minutes to complete your work.
Exploring How Round 2 - Assignment • This round of work is focused on continuing to explore ‘how’ we might do some of the things we are suggesting as recommendations. For this activity we’ll use the posters we worked on last night as well as the work we’ve completed so far today. Each group will focus on one of the parts of the continuum: • Group1: Pipeline and Admissions • Group 2: Didactic Curriculum • Group 3: Clinical Curriculum • Group 4: Clinical Practice and Distribution • Assignment • For your focus area, pick two of the recommendations for responsibly growing the PA profession (using the poster and the work we’ve completed so far today) and develop an ‘implementation plan’ for those two recommendations. For each recommendation, answer the question: How should this recommendation be implemented? • Make a list of all the things that need to happen in order for that recommendation to be implemented • Make a list of who needs to be involved or included in some way • Develop a timeline of activities – what needs to happen when? • Prepare your plans on the marker board. At the end of this round, you will share your plan with some of the other groups. You have about 60 minutes to complete your work.
