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Hello PA students! Some programs are starting this month :) Infact my favorite school has there first years starting tomorrow :) Please share your experiences on how your first day/week was! Physician assistants should post about there experiences to on what there first day was like too :) 

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My first day was full of new faces, ice breakers, paperwork and exciting explanations of what was to come.  It was the least stressful day of PA school.  Fun and exciting with a pinch of awkward.  Unfortunately, I was the girl that I forgot her pen.  Fortunately, there are a lot of overachievers in PA school.  Most people have 5 pens the first day.  That is probably the only day you can forget your pen without anyone yelling at you. Haha.  The rest of the week was like high school.  We kept busy and learned, but it was fun, not stressful.  Good luck to everyone starting the field!

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My first day was full of new faces, ice breakers, paperwork and exciting explanations of what was to come.  It was the least stressful day of PA school.  Fun and exciting with a pinch of awkward.  Unfortunately, I was the girl that I forgot her pen.  Fortunately, there are a lot of overachievers in PA school.  Most people have 5 pens the first day.  That is probably the only day you can forget your pen without anyone yelling at you. Haha.  The rest of the week was like high school.  We kept busy and learned, but it was fun, not stressful.  Good luck to everyone starting the field!

Sounds like an exciting experience :) I am sure you will become super close with your classmates!

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First day was a team building exercise making food bags for a local shelter, then catered lunch, then a lot of people talking at us, some awkward small talk and wishing they would just go ahead and get started teaching us.

 

 

10 months later i am wishing they would hurry up and get this day over with :)

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I am already there. Six more weeks until the block is over, 8 weeks until my first rotation (gen surg!!!)

Haha nice!! We start rotations next week. Exciting times. It's a great feeling being done with (or nearing the end of) didactic for sure!

 

 

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Haha nice!! We start rotations next week. Exciting times. It's a great feeling being done with (or nearing the end of) didactic for sure!

 

 

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I start didactic in two weeks and it seems so crazy that one year is enough to cover all this information. I keep thinking "how can I possibly learn all this?" and everyone going into rotations just seems so excited for it to be over. emoji23.png

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I start didactic in two weeks and it seems so crazy that one year is enough to cover all this information. I keep thinking "how can I possibly learn all this?" and everyone going into rotations just seems so excited for it to be over. emoji23.png

Pro-tip: you can't, so don't freak out when you don't.

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I start didactic in two weeks and it seems so crazy that one year is enough to cover all this information. I keep thinking "how can I possibly learn all this?" and everyone going into rotations just seems so excited for it to be over. emoji23.png

Graduate in a few weeks and I found myself thinking the same thing. I think it would help you to constantly remind yourself that this is not a sprint. It is more like a 500k. Pace yourself, organization is a must. Keep your head down and power through. Then when you feel like you might quit ( it happens!) push harder! Your classmates will become invaluable resources academically as well as personally. Good luck to you! It is impossible to learn everything in a year. Treatment modalities are always changing. That's why this profession is dedicated to life long learning.

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