ACPs & PAs: build educator evidence that’s credible, structured, and easy to appraise

Whether you’re an Advanced Clinical Practitioner (ACP) or a Physician Associate (PA), you’re often expected to teach. This includes supporting new starters, coaching junior colleagues, and contributing to departmental teaching. It’s essential for maintaining safe and consistent standards.

However, this teaching can be high-impact but low-evidence. While people benefit from your efforts, it doesn’t always translate into a clean portfolio for appraisal, progression, and professional development. This course helps you turn everyday teaching into structured, verifiable evidence, without adding loads of admin.

Unlocking Your Teaching Potential: A Course for ACPs and PAs

If you’re an ACP or PA: This course helps you teach with a repeatable structure and document it in a way that’s easier to review and evidence.

What you’ll leave with: A practical teaching framework, feedback tools, and a concise reflection method. This ensures your educator work doesn’t stay invisible.

Why This Matters for ACPs and PAs

ACPs: Education is Part of Advanced Practice

Advanced practice is commonly described across four pillars, including education (alongside clinical practice, leadership/management, and research). In other words, being able to teach, supervise, and develop others isn’t just a “nice extra.” It’s a core component of what advanced practice looks like on paper.

PAs: Regulation is Moving Expectations Toward Stronger Evidence

Since 13 December 2024, Physician Associates (and Anaesthesia Associates) have been regulated by the GMC. This brings them under GMC standards, guidance, and fitness-to-practise processes. While the GMC finalises the revalidation model and individual revalidation dates, it is clear that registered PAs should begin annual appraisals now. They need to start collecting and reflecting on the supporting information required for revalidation.

The Common Gap: You Teach, But It’s Hard to Prove

Many ACPs and PAs do plenty of teaching, but the evidence is often:

• Informal (“I helped the FY1s today”)

• Undocumented (no plan, no feedback, no reflection)

• Hard to summarise (nothing to show improvement or impact)

  
  

This course fixes that by providing a repeatable evidence system.

How the Course Helps ACPs & PAs (Practically)

1) A Simple Structure That Works Anywhere

You’ll learn a teaching framework you can use for:

• Ward-based micro-teaching (5–10 minutes)

• Induction teaching for new starters

• Departmental sessions

• Simulation/skills teaching

• Online teaching

  
  

Using the same structure each time means your evidence becomes consistent and easy to review.

2) Quick and Useful Feedback Collection

Instead of vague “great session” comments, you’ll learn how to collect short feedback that helps you demonstrate:

• Clarity

• Relevance

• Engagement

• Changes in the learner’s understanding/confidence

• Areas for improvement next time

  
  

3) Reflections That Read Well in Appraisal

You’ll learn to write short reflections that show:

• What you did

• What feedback indicated

• What you changed

• The impact that had

  
  

That “improvement loop” is what turns teaching into credible professional development.

Teaching counts most when it’s structured, evaluated, and easy to evidence.

FAQs

I’m Not a Formal Educator; Does This Still Apply?

Yes! Most ACPs and PAs teach through day-to-day clinical work. The course helps you capture that teaching properly.

Will This Help with Supervision and Safe Feedback?

Absolutely. The course focuses on practical, safe feedback and how to handle teaching in busy clinical settings. Good supervision supports safe practice.

I’m Too Busy for Extra Admin

The aim is the opposite! You’ll learn templates and repeatable methods so your evidence capture takes minutes, not hours.

Transforming Your Teaching into Evidence

If you’re already teaching, you’re doing valuable work. This course helps you package it into clear, portfolio-ready evidence. Your educator contributions can support your progression rather than disappearing into the day job.

Conclusion: Take the Next Step in Your Career

By enrolling in this course, you’re taking a significant step toward enhancing your teaching skills. You’ll gain the tools necessary to document your contributions effectively. This not only benefits your career but also improves the learning experience for those you teach.

So, why wait? Let’s turn your teaching into a powerful asset for your professional journey.