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Contracted physicians, assistants at Ascension St. John go on strike (detroitnews.com) My entire life I have been anti-union. I have had to change my mind because of the way giant corporations and organizations act.

I've been getting more into education. How I did it was just apply broadly to positions near me. Just kept searching and applying and eventually got a "part time - temporary" position as course director for pathophysiology, which has led to me being a regular guest lecturer now on topics that I'm more of an expert in. After this I applied for a full time remote teaching position for a DMS program. They didn't want me for full time, but also made me course director for a singe course, I think really as a trial. I've seen lots of friends get teaching jobs at their alma mater if they stayed local to it. That seems to be much easier since they know you a lot better. Some relevant information about teaching: Being "part-time" but course director is grueling. It's essentially having 2 full time jobs, it just lasts for a semester. For live teaching, I was given old lectures to work off of, but if you have a perfectionist personality it is still grueling. I was spending at minimum an 8 hour day every week modifying lectures. Then I had to re-write questions based on what I taught. Writing questions and multiple choice answers that are just the right degree of difficulty and not making an error that throws students off is a bit of an undertaking. Guest lecturing is a lot better, but I've found I've rarely been given the amount of time I felt needed to adequately cover a topic, which is frustrating. Plus the pay is terrible and really only do it for the passion. Per hour worked, I really feel like I'm making elementary teacher pay. Plus managing your clinical schedule to work around the student class schedule is a real pain. For remote teaching, it sounds great on paper, but in practice is as much work as live teaching and doing a commute. For me, I found I was not nearly as good of a lecturer recording my class as I was live speaking off the cuff. Lots of time spent editing recordings. Remote teaching, at least for doctoral programs, requires a LOT of discussion assignments, which you have to moderate, further the discussion, evaluate proper citations, etc. It's like grading several essays every week, which is not an insignificant amount of time, especially when you are working full time clinically. Plus you never really get those student "ah-ha!" moments that are rewarding in live classrooms. I've decided being the course director is really not for me, at least not while working clinically full time. I do it again since it got me into guest lecture work that I enjoy, but boy was I burning the candle at both ends during that semester both live and online courses. Unexpected bonus to teaching: I learned so much from teaching pathophysiology. It made me a better clinician and a better preceptor having to go back and relearn it all to teach, basically reading all of Rubin's Pathology.

I just got the call!!! I am in awe!!!!! So excited!!! accepted from March 6th!!!

House Bill 5116 Awaiting to be passed... I jumped to the conclusion it was already passed ...post edited...

Not all acceptances have gone out yet, they’re going through the applications slowly so acceptances are being sent out sporadically until end of April . Spoke to admissions

Looking at the article closer you can see how the dishonest "managers" massage the numbers. While the Docs say patients are waiting 17 hours, management says it's a 23 minute door to doc time. And management says the patients per hour has gone from 2.3 to 1.9. What this REALLY means is they hired a new grad NP to be "triage" and see everyone at check-in, which dropped their vaunted "door to doc" time to 23 minutes. But then patients are sent back to the waiting room for another 16.5 hours. But hey...they are meeting the metrics! And the patients per hour has gone from 2.3 to 1.9 because the processes implemented by TeamHealth slows down the providers, and of course the hospital is probably critically short of nurses so slower room turnovers, closed wings, etc.

You want to know how this will go? Watch this video, it's one of my favorites that I rewatch when I need a good laugh:

I can’t stop checking my phone for their email! This is torture

Withdrew from my seat last week, good luck!

I had a 2.9 science gpa 3.3 overall 5000+ pce 400+ hce 700+ volunteer academic chair for pa society at my undergrad You guys will do great!!! Good luck to everyone🫶

That's pretty much all of corporate healthcare these days, event the so-called "non-profit" places.

Just got a call from Barry today and got off the waitlist! Looking forward to connect with the other students

They sent out the in-person interview email!

FYI the group me has Miami and St Pete students in it so I’m p sure it’s out of 100 and not 76 if that gives you more hope!!

Agree we Scott and RC2 above. Passing as well, but it is a terrible test. A lot of "fist actions" that are done in reality are not even options. I also had to look up a lot of weird meds that I have never heard of ( and I used to teach pharm to first year PA students). Awful test. I think the answer is to allow a CAQ in one's specialty to count for recert purposes.

Just finished this quarter. Still passing but had a bad round. There are WAY too many "what would you do first" questions when 3 or 4 or 5 are all correct things and would likely be done all at once. Many have "what would you do" questions where the correct answer is highly subjective and 2 or 3 of them would all be fine choices and not wrong at all. One mentioned an intensivist. I do not have an intensivist. I have never met an intensivist. The only way to get to an intensivist is after an ER evaluation (generally). I have never worked in a hospital and spent most of my career in primary care in under served areas. The answer to the question is "send them to the ER." Not a choice. It is clear to me many of these questions are being written by people who work in large academic centers or work in specialty care and their idea of "common knowledge" is horribly distorted.

I heard that people who were accepted on 3/26 had until 4/5 to place a deposit. So my guess is there is going to be another wave of acceptances coming soon

Can AI see rolling eyes or the Candy Crush play on the phone or interpret pain level 9/10 or 12/10 on a migraine who is on said cell phone without dark glasses watching TikTok?

And to make some of you feel more confident, I messed up in the interview. My mic cut out, my zoom kicked me out, everything you could think of happened. I still got the call last week! It’s possible

Here’s what I think is happening, they are accepting the students who nailed in the interview first and then once they finished interviewing that’s when they start accepting more people, that’s how programs sometimes do it

I'm at a job where we discussed me doing procedures in GI which I've done before at another GI job(Flex Sigs, Hemorrhoid Banding, manometry etc) and a year and half in I haven't done anything more than anoscopies in office. I don't get a bonus for procedures so I'm just enjoying the high pay and alternating 3 and 4 day work weeks. I plan vacations without using PTO and I have found that after almost 15 yrs into this career, that I really don't mind NOT doing anything!

I am already crazy

You won't know everything in medicine. That's a fact. There's just too much to cram in to two years of PA school. PA school is really designed to teach you to evaluate and treat medical conditions by utilizing pre-PA skills. If you didn't have a prior medical career (like me and most PA students nowadays), you will struggle to some extent because you are learning even the basic stuff. Keep learning how to form a good differential, take a good history, and perform a good exam. And then work on understanding the concepts within each system. Focus your first years out in practice on filling in any blanks and get a job that has mentorship. Accepted it and understood that it's not a competition. In medicine you won't know everything and you're not taking a test so do your best to learn how to evaluate a patient and what next steps need to be taken to take care of the patient. No. There are still some areas I'm weaker in and so I just don't work in those areas. Mainly because those concepts aren't as natural for me to understand so I don't like them. Lol. I like understanding things. The unknown bothers me. I don't really remember what grades I got but I didn't get straight A's.

Omg nothing yet. I am sick waiting.

I was offered a spot off the waitlist 2 weeks ago, but ultimately declined. Hoping this spot goes to you guys!!

Have you ever sought care at the VA? No, I haven't worked at a VA. I did apply to their ED about 10 years ago. Despite being a disabled retired military, which should have put me at the top of the list for hiring, I never heard back from them. Until about a YEAR later. One of my co-workers leaves her job to go work for the VA ED. She had applied about a year before as well, took them months to get back with her, and then about 9 months of bureaucracy before she would finally start. She quit her job and started at the VA. She lasted exactly 1 shift before quitting because, in her words, the EMR was horrible. The day she returned to work with me, I got a call from the VA asking if I could interview....TOMORROW! Ummm....nope. Getting CARE at the VA shows the obvious bureaucratical bungling.

You are not required to PAY the union at the VA. PERIOD. I never have and never will. The Union Rep where I am has not impressed me nor shown any interest in any emails I ever sent him in 7+ years. In fact, I got ZERO response to inquiring emails. ZERO. So, I am not paying for absence of service.

I am with you. there is no ability to push back against huge companies as one person. add in the financial incentives to take advantage of PA and the only answer is unions!

Anyone hear anything?? I have anxiety with this waitlist since the new cycle is about to open, i feel like im in a scary limbo phase lol

I think you can check on Facebook it says this , three being administrators so 47 seats taken so like I would say 40 seats left

So I in a group of NRCME for DOT exams It has amazed me to no end what some of the questions Chiro's are coming up with. Stuff that is basic pharm or pathophys they are stumped on. Makes me wonder, in my state they are "physicians" Their schooling is about the same length as PA (6-7 semesters) and they do not have a residency... yet they are physicians.... And the fact they are lacking so much in the pathophys and pharma realm is alarming..... BTW I refer to chiro all the time and even go to one myself so I am not against them, just amazed at the fact they are allowed to certify DOT drivers when it is clearly outside their training.

I was envisioning that before it would dispense a prescription for analgesics, the machine would have some sort of pain-o-meter the patient would have to use, like the thing in Dune that they make you stick your hand in.

Really? You are amazed by this? Many people solely go to “choirpractors” for all their medical problems. I mean look at YouTube, the numbers of these people getting views vs real medical professionals getting views. The chiropractor lobby is huge. Look at ours. We are still squabbling over our name for crying out loud. So I’m not surprised at all. My state (il) has a nice spread about updating the il practice act with a link that goes nowhere. The chiropractic society page, on the other hand, LOADS of information about billing, how to read radiology reports, etc- and these links work. i agree they shouldn’t be included in situations that requires a real medical opinion, but they are. Because people think they work.

I got the acceptance call!! Interviewed Feb 13!! Congrats everyone who got accepted! we should create a group me!!

I see you have 10/10 pain from your hangnail, are allergic to all non-opiate pain medications and get a rash from morphine. Please proceed to the pharmacy to pick up your box of fentanyl patches, and have a nice day.

Frustrating that people keep saying things like this but won’t elaborate.

If AI tells folks that is NOT likely low testosterone or some rarely heard of disease and tells folks to turn off the boob tube and get out of the chair and go outdoors............ Ok, I will bite.

I'm so glad to hear that my therapist will be replaced by the same tech that runs the inbound call center for my local cable company, because there is nothing frustrating about that experience at all...... "Press 2 if you are really really depressed, press 3 if you feel better after talking with me, press 4 if you feel anxious, press 5 if you need your xanies refilled"

waitlisted congrats to everyone who got in !!!

Alright, the question I’ve been wanting to ask once I found out if I got in: who is making the accepted students groupchat?

I don't entirely disagree, but there are ways to set an algorithm up to ask the same question a few different ways to check for consistency. I know a lot of humans that can be cajoled into prescribing unnecessary antibiotics. A cold, emotionless machine doesn't care about Press Ganey.

I’ve been waiting on notifications from this forum to let me know when to check my email I don’t want to be surprised lol

Exactly right. Or the patient who just needs a comforting discussion. We need more people and less machines.

edit: nvm found it! 9/2025 if anyone's wondering:) Does anyone know when they'll be next reviewed by the ARC-PA? On their previous one it just says next review date is TBD.

My favorite "I know my body"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Given a choice between being horrifically bored and interrogating people's tailpipes all day, I know which one I would pick.

I interviewed March… nothing yet :(( makes me so anxious

I get referrals for ear pain with diagnosis of otitis media or eustachian tube dysfunction. After reviewing the chart, some were Telemedicine and no one examined the ear. Many of these patients were treated with antibiotics and a fair number of them have TMJ referred pain for which antibiotics were never indicated. I use telemedicine on a limited basis for selective follow up only.

I was accepted today from the waitlist! I wish everyone else the best of luck!

Well that’s a shame