NES Medical Associate Professions (MAPs)

MAPs Workshop 31st October 2022

The NES MAPs workstream are delighted to invite you to join this MAPs Workshop which will be delivered via MS Teams in 2 parts.  Part 1 will focus on MAPs in Primary, Integrated and Community Care. Part 2 will explore ways of supporting service and supporting learners to help meet workforce needs in Scotland through consideration of MAP and ACCP roles.

This is an opportunity to:

• To encourage debate and discussion on implementing MAPs roles in Primary, Integrated and Community Care.
• Debate and discuss how implementing Physician Associate roles in this sector positively impacts service delivery and provides benefit to the whole team.
• Hear update on progress of the MAPs and ACCP programme about workforce and educational scoping
• Discuss challenges and opportunities in creating conditions for increased implementation of these roles, workforce diversification and consideration of future facing educational models

Target audience:

·Service and clinical leads with responsibility for developing service and remobilisation

·MAPs practitioners involved in educational support and development

·Education partners

Next steps for regulation of Physician Associate and Anaesthesia Associate roles 

Please see the latest updates from our colleagues at General Medical Council (GMC), the Faculty of Physician Associates (FPA) and the Royal College of Anaesthetists (RCoA) regarding the next steps to regulation of Physician Associate and Anaesthesia Associate roles.

Next step on road to regulation as new education standards for future PAs and AAs published - GMC (gmc-uk.org) 

The Faculty of Physician Associates launches a draft Physician Associate Curriculum