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Welcome to the PAC Volunteer Community
WELCOME
Welcome to the team! You are here because of your commitment to medical education. We are so grateful to you for joining us and helping to make this upcoming PAC event what it is. We could not do this without you. 🙏 ❤️
We work hard to make this a great experience for learners and for you, our volunteers. As a volunteer, you will work side by side with our learners and faculty.
If you’re interested in a medical career, we want this experience to be valuable. Feel free to use us as mentors and put us on your CV and application as “medical education technicians” for the day, learning how great medical education gets created.
This document will give you a brief overview of the format, basic essential information (like where and when to come), and what to expect for the day.
About the PAC Program
PAC explained
We are more than an airway course. Our work seeks to transform how we learn in medical education by developing the next generation of teaching styles that meet learners where they live and provide a more accessible, engaging, effective, and inspiring learning experience.
We do this through partnerships with experts in medical education across all disciplines and with design experts outside the traditional boundaries of medicine, such as the School of Visual Arts Design for Social Innovation, and other artists here in NYC. Our work applies design thinking to the complex problems of learning in today’s healthcare environment and explores the boundaries between digital and physical, remote, and in-person learning.
At PAC, our creators have designed a series of uniquely immersive, interactive, and self-directed learning experiences that strengthen airway knowledge by addressing all the elements required for clinical mastery. Foundational knowledge, critical concepts, procedures, planning and logistics, teamwork, human factors, and personal experience are all integrated seamlessly with expert coaching and high-fidelity simulations into a unified learning experience that provides learners with a powerful opportunity to improve their airway management skills.
the physical space
We do all this by designing the website to work seamlessly with our graphically designed posters and embedded QR codes, which connect digital content to the physical space. Put together in series within the physical space, learners are exposed to big-picture ideas, core concepts, personal experiences, and procedural skills, using audio and video tools to provide guided hands-on practice with the equipment provided in each installation.
As a volunteer, you will be helping to keep these spaces organized and flowing smoothly
Expert Coaching
faculty coaching
Because learners can direct their own learning, faculty are also free from teaching in a one-size-fits-all format.
As a volunteer, you will help ensure that faculty have everything they need to teach and keep all self-directed stations organized.
The Simulation Challenges
Simulation challenges are designed to bring together all the core concepts and skills within the self-directed and coaching portions of the installation. They run simultaneously with the installations on a set schedule.
As a volunteer, you will help set up and prepare the simulation rooms for learners between sessions.
How to be a volunteer
We’ve tried to make it stress-free and fun for volunteers. Our experience is that the day is full of great energy and learning, so here is what you can do to prepare. It should require minimal time. 👇
Volunteer Roles
Here are some of the things you will be doing as a volunteer:
- Assist with Preparation & Set-Up
- Help the production team with logistics
- Assist with Registration
- Supervise the flow and organization of active learning spaces
- Help faculty at individual coaching stations
- Help SIM teams with preparation and set-up before and after each session
- Help with breaking down at the end of the day
How to Get Started
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See what’s Coming Up
This is our list of upcoming events where volunteers are welcome. We also have regular small group sessions and other special events in the studio that we will share with you as they become available. Most of the events are in our Manhattan Studio on West 20th Street. But we also have other events locally, nationally, and even internationally.
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Sign up to join us
Please click below and sign up to volunteer. After you provide your information, we will contact you with more details about event availability. We have a large number of volunteers, but we try to be fair in distributing opportunities. Not every event is guaranteed for each volunteer who requests a specific event.
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free learning
When you volunteer at PAC, the website is free! Once you’re signed up for an event, we will send you an access code that gives you full access to all of our online resources. Use the link below. Register for the “Premium Subscription” and then enter the code you should receive. A small thank-you for helping make medical education better.
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