During the didactic work, PA students will be located at the medical school and enroll as a cohort in a clinically focused curriculum.
During the didactic phase, students develop their observational acumen and interpersonal skills for history taking and physical examination, as well as fine tune their psychomotor, spatial, and critical-thinking skills.
Through this mechanism, students could come together and interact during the didactic aspects of clinical education.
Small group sessions involving critical review and discussion of examples of desirable and undesirable discharge summaries would be designed to reinforce concepts covered during the didactic session.
Participants used anatomic models to manipulate concurrently during the didactic component, and cadaveric specimens were explored in a small-group teaching style around site-specific prosection stations to provide a kinesthetic learning environment.
This issue was thoroughly approached during the didactic lecture (figure 1) in which team formation, the assignment of roles and deliberate changes in roles according to the clinical situation were discussed.
