In February 2020, the PaCES Clinical Day provided an immersive, patient-centred biomedical workplace experience for a group of Stage 2 biosciences undergraduates, having been developed during summer 2019 and piloted with a small group of biosciences MSc students the previous November.

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PaCES aims to empower more students to make better-informed study and career choices through contextualising their learning with an exciting, interactive, biomedical workplace experience. PaCES used new live-link technology to allow students to remotely observe surgery live in real-time. The live-link technology gave Kent Biosciences students unprecedented access to the surgical environment, allowing students to simultaneously ‘see what the surgeon sees’ and interact with the surgical team during the surgery.  The surgical observation was complemented by mini-talks delivered by a diverse set of clinical experts and visits from former patients who shared their experiences of this surgery. Students were surveyed before and after the experience. Data is currently being collated for analysis framed around interest theory in order to evaluate the effectiveness of the project against its stated aims.