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How to Prepare for PA School Interviews
Each leg of the PA application process comes with its own unique kind of stress. First, there’s the chaos of preparing and submitting your CASPA. You have to round up letters of recommendation, order and input all of your transcripts, send out GRE scores, perfect your personal statement and keep track of supplementals for each program. After submitting, there’s an eerie quiet that settles over. You patiently wait to hear back from schools… or you check your email repeatedly hoping for news. Same thing, right?
Some schools will get back to you in days, others may take weeks or months. Eventually the madness culminates in an interview invitation, which brings on a new kind of…
Resources
Physician Assistant Schools
This site is aimed at helping both U.S. and international students who are considering higher education in the U.S. and are uncertain of the formalities involved. The site can be browsed by name, program, and state of U.S. colleges, community colleges, and universities, and by name and province of Canadian universities.
Everything You Need to Know About Becoming an EMPA
So you want to be an emergency medicine physician assistant (EMPA)? Here are some things you should consider when making the decision, what you’ll need to prepare, and resources to help you out (even an emergency medicine PA Qbank).
Why I love being a PA: My letter to a prospective MD
While working at the campus health center as a phlebotomist, I met a physician assistant. I chose the PA career because I wanted to work in family practice and after working alongside doctors for several years I no longer envied their lifestyle. For me, PA was a perfect fit.
A physician assistant writes to the doctors of America
I’m a physician assistant, having graduated from PA school over thirty-six years ago. There is angst in my profession, but many PAs don’t openly voice it. I felt compelled to write to you because I still believe in my profession, and I believe in yours, as well.
Career Spotlight: Physician assistant
Physician Assistant explains career and difference between a PA and a doctor and a PA and a nurse practitioner. Excellent explanation of the career by a knowledgeable physician assistant.
Old Man On Campus
A middle-aged engineer blunders into medicine, goes back to college at 58, and becomes a physician assistant.
Physician Assistants Careers Overview
Provides an overview of the day to day working life of a PA.
Why Physician Assistant School May be Right for You
The decision between PA school and medical school is one that an increasing number of college graduates and young medical professionals are facing. With the economy tight in recent years, demand for physician assistants has increased, as they are capable of practicing medicine at roughly the same level as a full-fledged physician, but at a much lower cost...
How to Prepare for PA School Interviews
Each leg of the PA application process comes with its own unique kind of stress. First, there’s the chaos of preparing and submitting your CASPA. You have to round up letters of recommendation, order and input all of your transcripts, send out GRE scores, perfect your personal statement and keep track of supplementals for each program. After submitting, there’s an eerie quiet that settles over. You patiently wait to hear back from schools… or you check your email repeatedly hoping for news. Same thing, right? Some schools will get back to you in days, others may take weeks or months.
5 Reasons a Physician Assistant Career is Wrong for You
It’s easy to get excited about a physician assistant career. I wrote recently about how to tell if you have the PA personality. But what about the values you hold? Excitement has a way of discouraging us from seeing the little negatives we sometimes need to see. So today’s topic is a little different — 180 degrees, in fact: how to tell if it’s the wrong field for you.
6 minutes Online Video: Physician Assistants
Controversy over plans to introduce physician assistants in Australia came to a head in May as Queensland university announced it was scrapping its PA training program. PA Allan Ford, who is in charge of a similar training course at James Cook University, spoke to 6minutes about whether there is a future of physician assistants in Australia.
Inside PA Training
Inside PA Training started in the late summer of 2011 when I met my classmate and dear friend, Gabe, during our first week of classes at UC Davis School of Medicine’s Family Nurse Practitioner and Physician Assistant Program. We quickly decided it might be fun to write about our experiences. These days, the blog’s all me, but I take counsel from my pal Gabey-baby on a regular basis.
Be A Physician Assistant
Helping you become a physician assistant.
Becoming a Physician Assistant
This is my experience of attending physician assistant school, graduating and working as a PA-C. Mostly. I'll talk about the daily grind too - hopefully some of it will be interesting.
CASPA
CASPA offers applicants a convenient, state-of the-art, Web-based application service that will allow you to apply to any number of participating PA educational programs by completing a single application. The on-line application was specifically designed for your ease and convenience. With far less paperwork, streamlined processing, and ongoing communication with applicants, CASPA offers you the ability to apply to multiple programs across the country.
Inside PA Training
Inside PA Training started in the late summer of 2011 when I met my classmate and dear friend, Gabe, during our first week of classes at UC Davis School of Medicine’s Family Nurse Practitioner and Physician Assistant Program. We quickly decided it might be fun to write about our experiences. These days, the blog’s all me, but I take counsel from my pal Gabey-baby on a regular basis.
PhysicianAssistantEDU.org
PhysicianAssistantEDU.org is comprised of step-by-step state licensing guides, details on pursuing a specialty area of practice and earning a certificate of added qualification (CAQ), and state salary data. This makes PhysicianAssistantEDU.org a useful resource for aspiring grad students, recently graduated candidates for licensure, and practicing PAs alike.
Accreditation Review Commission on Education for the Physician Assistant
The Accreditation Review Commission on Education for the Physician Assistant (ARC-PA) is the accrediting agency that protects the interests of the public and PA profession by defining the standards for PA education and evaluating PA educational programs within the territorial United States to ensure their compliance with those standards.
Physician Assistant Education Association
This section contains useful resources for applicants, providing information about the PA profession and health professions education. PAEA offers a variety of services for applicants, including the PA Programs Directory and the Central Application Service for Physician Assistants (CASPA).
Physician Assistant Education Association
PAEA's mission is to pursue excellence, foster faculty development, advance the body of knowledge that defines quality education and patient-centered care, and promote diversity in all aspects of physician assistant education.
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