No SP on-site = dealbreaker for a new grad?

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agreed unregulated had a nice post. however i disagree with one element. PAs HAVE NOT completed training following PA school. Training is on the job and requires mentorship. PAs do not receive formalized residency training and that IN PERSON HANDS ON tutelage is essential to clinical competency. PAs need to receive that experience through employment. 

 

many physicians .. perhaps even the one hiring you .. do not understand the limitations of a new grad PA. Even a physician who worked with PAs in the past might not be aware. We all know PAs who practice as good with as much command as attending physician's. If this is what the MD had been exposed to during his training he may think PAs at all levels of experience are similar. The MD training model does not lend itself to understanding the PA on the job model.