livemedicine Posted June 2, 2017 Share Posted June 2, 2017 Hi, I am currently a Pre-Health student. I am torn between becoming a PA or MD. I have a strong interest in perusing internal medicine and I was wondering what life is like for internal medicine PAs. What's the day to day like? Average salary? Scope of practice? Hours worked? I know a lot of specialities allow PAs to have a lot of autonomy and I was wondering if this was one of those specialities. I don't mind working under a doctor, but I want to have a decent amount of autonomy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wildPAbrendan Posted June 2, 2017 Share Posted June 2, 2017 Job shadow one and find out. This is why PA programs want applicants to complete a job shadow. I'm not a PA but from my job shadows and years of working in a hospital the hospitalist PAs (in WA) don't have a doctor following them around or co-signing all of their rx;s Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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