Background: A student-faculty run clinic is an educational volunteer experience coordinated by students under the guidance of licensed faculty. This unique clinical environment provides a setting to link education to practice by giving direct patient care and gaining exposure to leadership, procedural skills and system-based practices(1). Current literature primarily focuses on the medical students’ education(2), but leaves a gap in the discussion of the effect on the experience of the physician assistant (PA) student.   Physician assistant education consists of a didactic year followed by…

Background/Purpose:Medical simulations and training have been used to educate medical students and professionals since the early 1950s (1,2). Numerous studies on graduate level medical education have shown the benefit of using high-fidelity simulations to enhance and facilitate patient care, medical knowledge, practice-based learning, interpersonal and communication skills, professionalism and systems-based practice (3,4,5). There is little literature regarding student-run simulations in the setting of a graduate level medical education and its effectiveness. Thus, a pilot, student-run…