In your first year of practice post-qualification, were you employed as a preceptorship physician associate at band 6 or in a permanent band 7 post?

• If you weren't employed in a preceptorship, do you think this would have been helpful (eg components of Sheffield preceptorship scheme are half day per week protected study time, access to PA-specific taught sessions +/– consultation observation from another PA).

If you moved to general practice from another specialty (ie it wasn't your first post), please also state this here too.

Were you given an induction period to the practice before you were expected to start seeing patients (eg approximately X days or weeks of observing colleagues)?

• If so, please describe your induction period below; stating the duration, and if it felt adequate to your clinical needs? If inadequate, please detail why you have stated this.

• If no induction was provided, do you think this would have been helpful, and why?

When you first started seeing patients, how often did a supervisor support you in debriefing/overseeing your patients (eg once/twice daily; once/twice weekly)?

• If applicable to your current stage of practice, how did this change throughout the year? Was any change in supervision at your request or theirs? Did this feel clinically appropriate and safe to you?

Did the level of supervision you were given feel appropriate to your clinical needs, or did it ever feel too much/little? Could it have been enhanced through the addition of any other aspect?

Aside from clinical supervision of patient consultations, did you ever have periodic meetings with a supervisor to discuss non-patient facing issues (eg salary, appointment lengths, feedback or integrating you into the team)?

• If so, how frequently did these meetings occur and what did you discuss?

• If you did not have access to such formalised meetings, do you think this would have been helpful to you? Did you have a named supervisor?

Regarding appointment length, specifically, did your supervisor(s) approach appointment timing with you? Did the pace of appointment time reduction feel comfortable for you?