Roundtable Clinical Year Challenges Encountered with Increasing PA Student Enrollment PAEA Annual Education Forum

At the end of this session, each participant should be able to: • Discuss the ongoing trend toward increasing PA student enrollment. • Discuss the responsibilities of PA educators who work in the clinical year and the additional challenges posed by increasing student enrollment. • Develop potential solutions to added clinical year responsibilities. • Implement strategies that meet student and faculty needs in the clinical year. This session will center on discussing and developing strategies to meet the demands that increasing PA student enrollment places on PA educators who work in the clinical year. Participants will be asked to share issues, concerns, and effective solutions encountered while managing larger class sizes. Additionally, participants will be asked to consider and develop networking tools that may benefit clinical PA education as a whole. Small group discussions: • Discuss clinical year issues and rank concerns in order of importance. • Brainstorm and develop global solutions to challenges identified in the initial small grou