This is a very exciting time in PA Education and especially for the University of Charleston Physician Assistant program. We have been working diligently over the last several months to develop an outstanding program. I’m happy to report that we are now accepting applications. So what’s going to be so great about the UC PA Program?…
I always thought advice was cheap, until I started getting advice from current PA students on how to train for the marathon that is PA school. Below are some tips culled over the months from current PA students and students who have been accepted to their schools of choice, on how to prepare for the interview.
OK, so it’s not actually the two year anniversary of www.PhysicianAssistantED.com (which actually officially launched January of this year). However, October will mark two years since the inspiration hit me to create the website. I remember it vividly. I was lying down in a hotel room in Portland, Oregon after a day full of events at the annual Physician Assistant Education Association (PAEA) conference. I was thinking about all the great conference presentations and began to wonder…
As I’m working to build an extraordinary program to train PAs, thousands of hopeful pre-PAs are submitting applications in an effort to land one of the coveted seats within nearly 160 programs across the nation. What do we need in these applicants? We need applicants who understand that going into medicine is all about the patient, about centering everything we do as practitioners around the health and well-being of the patient. We need applicants who are willing…