Physician Associate Studies

Train to become a fully qualified physician associate with our mpas physician associate studies programme.

Complete placements within many areas of medical practice, across a variety of hospital and community settings. in the first two years, you will undertake mini work-shadowing placements to understand the working environment of the nhs. in your third year, you will work on rotation with around 350 hours of clinical placements in both primary and secondary healthcare settings. in your final year this will increase to 1,350 hours, ensuring that you are well prepared to practice as a physician associate upon graduation.

• Type: Mandatory

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As a physician associate, you will be able to work in a wide variety of workplaces including gp practices, community health services and all types of hospital care. supporting doctors in the diagnosis and management of patients, you will: take medical histories perform examinations diagnose illnesses analyse test results develop management plans. a lack of trained physician associates in the uk means that career prospects for graduates are excellent. the predicted growth of this role across the nhs, to fill an important resource gap, indicates strong continued employment prospects.

Work while you study

You can also work on a UK student visa, from 10 to 20 hours per week during the academic year, 40 hours per week or full-time during vacations.

Partnerships

Most universities in England have partnerships with different companies and organisations to ensure their students get enough professional training as students. In addition to increasing their students' chances to get hired by one of the universities. University of Reading has partnerships with the following companies: