Physician Assistant Cancer Education Program

描述(由申请者提供)：医师助理癌症教育(PACE)项目的具体目标是：1)开发、测试和改进癌症风险评估、风险降低和管理课程；2)实施教师发展计划，以促进PA教职员工采用有效的课程组成部分；以及3)使用客观的结果衡量标准，评估针对癌症的课程和教师发展计划的有效性；通过几种策略(例如，期刊文章、会议演示文稿、在线可下载资源)传播结果。准备PA以有效地让患者参与癌症风险管理的新战略包括：将以病例为基础的预防系列与PA一起使用；使用激励性访谈；以及使用客观结构化临床考试(t欧安组织)的专门培训形式，以提高PA在不同文化群体中以患者为中心的癌症风险管理方面的技能。贝勒医学院(BCM)6门PA课程(行为咨询、临床遗传学、临床医学、文化能力、身体诊断、妇女健康)的癌症内容将得到加强。经修订的课程将在BCM在1-2年级进行实地测试，并在3-5年级采用以供使用和改进。教师发展研讨会将促进在德克萨斯州的6个PA项目(3年级)和其他州的5个项目(4年级)中复制PACE课程组成部分。在5年内，大约900名学生和30名教职员工将直接受到PACE倡议的影响。对学生和教师表现的多模式评估将记录定量和定性方面的学习，包括使用t欧安组织和技能检查表衡量临床行为，以及使用多文化敏感度量表衡量文化能力。结果将通过演示文稿、出版物、在线资源中心和其他方式传播。随着大量的个人助理在公共卫生服务环境中追求职业生涯，加强他们准备提供高质量的癌症风险评估和管理服务是至关重要的。无论种族、民族、收入水平或服务来源如何，有癌症风险的成年人和儿童都应该能够获得以患者为中心的高质量医疗保健。该项目旨在确保从事公共卫生保健事业的私人助理准备为所有患者提供高质量的癌症相关护理。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The specific aims of the Physician Assistant Cancer Education (PACE) project are to: 1) develop, test, and refine a Cancer Risk Assessment, Risk Reduction, and Management curriculum; 2) implement a faculty development program to promote adoption of effective curriculum components by PA faculty members; and 3) evaluate the effectiveness of cancer-specific curricular and faculty development initiatives using objective outcome measures; disseminating the results through several strategies (e.g., journal articles, conference presentations, online down-loadable resources). Novel strategies for preparing PAs to engage patients effectively in cancer risk management include: adapting the Case-based series in Population-Oriented Prevention for use with PAs; using motivational interviewing; and using a specialized training form of objective structured clinical examinations (tOSCE) to enhance PA skills in patient-centered cancer risk management across diverse cultural groups. Cancer content in 6 Baylor College of Medicine (BCM) PA courses (Behavioral Counseling, Clinical Genetics, Clinical Medicine, Cultural Competency, Physical Diagnosis, Women's Health) will be strengthened. Revised courses will be field tested at BCM in years 1-2 and adopted for use and refinement in years 3-5. Faculty development workshops will foster replication of PACE curriculum components in 6 PA programs in Texas (year 3) and 5 programs in other states (year 4). Over 5 years, some 900 students and 30 faculty will be directly affected by the PACE initiative. Multimodal evaluations of student and faculty performance will document learning in both quantitative and qualitative terms, including measures of clinical behaviors using the tOSCE and skills checklists, and cultural competency using a multicultural sensitivity scale. Results will be disseminated through presentations, publications, an online resource center, and other means. With large numbers of PAs pursuing careers in public health service settings, enhancing their readiness to provide high quality cancer risk assessment and management services is of utmost importance. Regardless of race, ethnicity, income level, or source of service, adults, and children at risk from cancer should have access to high quality patient- centered healthcare. The project is designed to ensure that PAs who pursue careers in public health care are prepared to deliver high quality cancer-related care to all patients.