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Hello from a current NUPA-S1 (25' Class, Dual PA/MSHI)! Finally have some breathing room with this brief Thanksgiving break to catch up (and STUDY, as we have 2 exams right when we return Monday) (Disclaimer: this is JUST my own experience and it will all vary with my cohort) I had interviewed early November and got my phone call Nov 14th. If I recall correctly, people in my cohort got calls/emails/etc. mostly after Thanksgiving and all the way to 1 week before classes started in late August! My suggestion for all of you is BREATHE and relish the time you have with family during this Thanksgiving break. Regardless of what happens with your applications wherever you apply, don't you dare EVER give up! You may/may not receive rejections and be placed on a waitlist. KEEP GOING! If an "older" non-traditional student like me can make it after 15 years of making up for an abysmal undergrad GPA, taking post-bacc courses while a juggling FT job, HCEs/PCEs, volunteering, caring for an ill parent (breast CA and Stroke), and a traumatizing car accident a few weeks after New Year's Day 2023: You sure as hell can. What I always kept in my heart was, "It's just a matter of WHEN, not HOW". So I implore you to NEVER EVER GIVE UP, it WILL happen for you.

They can’t reject me if I don’t check my email

I JUST GOT THE CALL OMGGGGG crying at work lol 2nd time interviewing with this school! I’m so excited!!! Good luck to everyone 🫶 don’t give up!!!!

Hey PA Forum! Wanted to check back in after I finished second year. I recently completed my last final for my second year. My program is pretty heavy on tests at the end of second year mixing in pre-clinical NBME and in house finals. Luckily everything went well, I scored well on in house and had high national percentiles on NBME. This year was tough academically. I could have glided by with less studying but I really wanted to make all As so I put a lot of work in. I definitely think PA school has helped me tremendously in medical school. Mostly from the aspect that I've seen portions of information in some capacity. Which saves me time to focus on the details that I hadn't previously seen. I layer was peeled back on certain things as well. I will now study for Step 1 over the course of the next couple of weeks. Which is a draining process. I will start clinicals later this summer and I have yet to receive my schedule but I am so looking forward to getting back our in the field. We just got comments back from reviewers on my first APP paper so hopefully if they like our revisions and it can be published and I can share to those who ask. A recent cool thing that happened was I was on campus this past week for a clinical check off and one of the faculty of our adjoining PA program was there. The faculty member introduced themselves as Dr. X and that they were a boarded EM physician and PA. So I emphatically said "me too". Turns out they have been at the program for a year and I just hadn't been made aware of them being a PA and MD. So I look forward to their mentoring and having the opportunity to use them as a resource.

Hey yall, current student here from last cohort. I know how you are all feeling, be patient! I do not believe there was an association between canvas module grades and acceptance letters, and no I don't know when they'll start reaching out. Looking forward to chatting with you guys on the FB page and passing our apartments and furniture on to some of you. Good luck!

Hi there, my name is Sarah and I'm a first-year student in the Yale PA Online program. I was in the same shoes as many of you exactly 1 year ago today and I know how nerve-racking the process can be. Feel free to reach out to me with questions – I am best reached on here or via Instagram @theonlinepas. I won't be able to answer any questions about interviews but can speak on my experience in the program thus far. Fingers crossed and good luck to all of you.

Oh wow! Good luck to those who have an interview tomorrow!

Hello Everyone, I am part of the ATSU CCPA cohort of 2025 and I just wanted to wish you all good luck with your applications. Just a heads up, I believe that interviews will be conducted the last week of March (not completely sure tho). I have read some of the threads on this page and what I remember from my application process is that you do not need to complete the 2A step right away. There is no benefit for submitting it first. Last year they sent out mass invites for step 2B regardless of when you submitted 2A (with the caveat that you did turn 2A within a timely manner). Good luck to everyone! Feel free to ask me any questions you may have (I am not able to tell you anything about the interviews however), and I will try to check this thread every once and a while. Best of luck to everyone!

Sending positive thoughts to those that got rejected. this is my 3rd time applying to PA schools and finally this cycle I got an interview with Rutgers and I’m still currently waiting to hear back. all I want to say is that if you truly want to be a PA it will happen for you! Everyone’s time line is different - just focus on yourself and only your self and PLEASE do not compare yourself to others (I learned that the hard way)

For those who applied to Tacoma, I just received my acceptance call a few mins ago. There’s still hope and lots of seats available. Good luck everyone!

Just received an interview invite!

Hi everyone, I am a recent graduate from Pacific and now a PA-C working in urgent care. I did interviews with a faculty member on the 9/9 session and got to meet some of you, and just wanted to say congratulations to those of you hearing back, and good luck to those of you still in the cycle. Some advice for anyone stalking the forums --- I personally received my interview invite pretty "late" in the cycle, but was still a direct admit to the program after my interview session (I believe I had my interview with the program the very last day they held interviews that year). I also submitted about a week before supplemental applications were due. All this being said to illustrate the point that, until the final interview day is held, you still have a chance. It is very easy to get lost in the noise and become discouraged from what you read online. I remember stalking the forums nervously for all the schools I applied to and thinking that there was no way I would hear back from Pacific, but luckily, I was wrong! Feel free to message if you have any questions about Pacific's PA Program. And if I interviewed you -- it was nice to meet you!

Hi all, I got an interview invite email today at around noon. I am so stoked because this is my first invitation for an interview!! Signed up for October 9th, that was actually the only date I saw but I’m sure that there are opening interview dates afterwards that will be offered to the next rounds of people they invite. Good luck to all, please do not be discouraged. The wait is dreadful and anxiety-provoking but no news does not already mean bad news!

Hi all! I'm a current MEDEX student at the Spokane Campus Class 27. I was just peeking in here because I remember the anxiety I was in about this time last year. If any of you have any questions feel free to email me I don't have the time to check back here very often. My school email I don't give out so it doesn't get bogged down with non-school stuff, but you can email my personal at kasie85@hotmail.com. With my fall didactic quarter starting in less than a week, it might take me a few days to respond though. Anyway, reach out. I am happy to help. All campuses use the same class formats and processes so I can talk to prospective student to any campus, except about the campus itself. Also for my sanity, please don't share my email outside of this forum. Kasie M. PA-S

Many of us from last cohort are ready to help as much of you as we can - just as the cohort before us did, so don't fret too much! We also had about 2 months to sort it all out, it's definitely possible. Many of us came from across the country as well. A lot of us have apartments that we can pass on to future students, transferring leases can make rent slightly cheaper than finding an apartment in the same complex alone. I took over a lease and purchased all their furniture from them so everything was already in the unit when I arrived! Just some options for those of you that don't want to deal with bringing/purchasing furniture on the move.

Sending good luck and good vibes to all of you!!!

Oregon just became the first state to change the title of PAs officially to Physician Associates. Way to go OSPA! https://docs.google.com/document/d/1h8CYycA3786wFpzbCr5XHOk8ymf3dzYLMun8OAgEkYc/edit?pli=1

literally getting so antsy waiting for a response

Thank you all for your responses. I decided to go back for a variety of reasons, but mainly because I felt a hard ceiling in regards to autonomy, scope of practice, type of patient I would be caring for. I lost some of these things going from paramedic to pa. I feel like unless I practice in a rural environment, the role of the APP in the ED is to decompress the ED so that the docs can focus on the sicker patients - which is appropriate. I think the role that I envisioned myself having in medicine is more in line with being a physician. I remember feeling this way in PA school as well, and the itch never really went away.

I got an email from them thinking it was either my rejection or interview invite but it was just a survey

I received the phone call for Seattle campus on Friday 11/03 around 10am. I interviewed on 10/30. This was my 3rd time applying and second time interviewing for the Seattle campus. Excited for this opportunity. Seattle class #58 here I come!

I agree particularly in people who list everything as an allergy. I've had too many patients over the years that list something in every category of antibiotic as an allergy. When I drill down its "it gave me diarrhea" or "it upset my stomach." I tell them.... we have to sort this out. One day you may need one of these to save your life and your provider is going to hesitate.

In the webinar today they said that they've finished reviewing applications and interviews will be for late November/early December. Hopefully we will hear (good news ) this week!!

I GOT OFF THE WAITLIST GUYS!!! IM ACCEPTED.

Just got an email that I’m on the interview waitlist. Anyone else? edit: i got my email at 1:33 PM cst if that matters

I received an acceptance today (9/21) from my interview on 9/8! I am an out-of-state first time applicant to UNT.

I got accepted from the 9/13 interview! I’m going to be a PA!!

In my 37 years of practicing, the biggest problem with dealing with a patient seeking controlled meds is the common answer being "I never had a problem before getting refills from Dr., PA, NP, why are you giving me a hard time? I know my body and I need this!" They can be quite intimidating with their demand. Sadly, previously they had gotten what they wanted rather than confronting the patient in a professional manner. It easily can turn into a scary situation.

Received an acceptance 15 minutes ago, after interviewing 2 days ago. Best of luck, everyone UPDATE 9/26/23: I have officially accepted a seat and created a Facebook group! Please PM me once you have also done the same, with your Facebook URL, and I'd be happy to add you!

Just received an interview invite! Interviewing 9/14! Stoked!!! Applied 6/6 Verified and under review 6/16 Check those emails!

I was also at a crossroads in my career although at a younger age at the time in comparison. Briefly, I was a CT surgery PA for a few years, did the PA to DO bridge at LECOM and now am in my last year of residency in anesthesiology. I know people intermittently send me messages about this so I apologize if I haven't gotten back to them! Been busy and whatnot. First time back on this forum in a while. I, too, felt as though there was a glass ceiling in my career combined with the fact that there wasn't anything exciting going on my life with no debt, kids, or responsibilities. The outlook of possibilities after completing medical school and residency combined with the aforementioned circumstances was the impetus for pursing medical school. I can answer more specific questions if you DM me and I'll try to remember to recheck the account! But overall, it was a very intense, long journey. There were many times in medical school where I would go, "Oh, that's what that meant" or "Oh, that's why we did that." You get a much deeper understanding of clinical medicine, physiology, pharmacology, and pathology with medical school as a result of multiple high stake board exams combined with frequent testing (at least at LECOM). Then in residency, you would think that because you were a PA that went to medical school that things would be different and you would be respected and mostly everything would be peachy. Nope, at the big academic centers that you are funneled into for residency it is often acknowledged that you know a few more caveats and are more seasoned as a former PA but you still are treated much worse than what you would have been if you worked at the same institution as a PA. The academic centers thrive on diverting their least tolerable/mindless/silly tasks onto the residents because they are cheap labor, cannot negotiate, and have the carrot of being a residency trained physician at the end constantly held over their heads. These tasks always get more meaningless and mind numbing as the attendings and midlevels never have to deal with them in the interest of "education." I definitely had more people talk back to me, question my judgement, and just be plain mean to me as a resident than I ever did as a PA. And if you complain about it, then no one is ever in your corner because they know you'll be gone in a few years and the other person has been there for years already combined with the constant need to retain hospital staff. And I'm not alone in this. I've talked to other PA's and NP's who are in residency and they have experienced very similar things. I guess it also doesn't help that I picked a specialty that everyone relies on but is not well respected in general but especially so at my institution. I can honestly say that I am a much better clinician now because of my training but a much worse human being. You can understand why some doctors get short tempered and irritable after going through this process once you've been through it. Some of the more infuriating things that have happened in residency that drive me nuts: nurses not listening to me during an emergency and just doing whatever they want despite clearly telling them what I wanted, a NP pushing me out of the way to try to intubate a difficult airway because "it was her patient" (why did you page me for help? "oh, that's just a page that goes out whenever an intubation happens") then proceed to muck up the airway only for me to come back and get it for her, a CRNA not listening when I told her a patient was an extremely difficult airway and the airway should only be manipulated with a fiberoptic (patient coded and developed an anoxic brain injury because she told the attending they had a favorable airway and started to induce general anesthesia), being told by nurses to take out the trash because it's "anesthesia trash not surgical trash" and I had no anesthesia techs at this facility, hammer paged from angry nurses wanting silly paperwork filled out despite being in a code, other overworked residents hammer paging you and paging at silly hours for stuff that can clearly wait until morning, being pushed out of the way by attendings/NPs/PAs for their own consent while I am actively consenting a patient for anesthesia, PA holding the pager telling me that she can't answer my simple question and I have to call one of the residents who is on protected academic time directly (why are you holding the pager then???? what is the point of this protected academic time????), etc... Most of this is the poor culture of the hospital I'm at. It's a very malignant place but still similar to a lot of academic centers you would be expected to train at. It's not a thing directed at multiple professions in general, it's just the academic centers tend to breed this kind of behavior. But had I not gone to medical school, I likely would have been sheltered from this poor behavior on the part of other people as my interest lies in serving smaller communities and never working at an academic center. Can't wait to finish. It's a long journey and you have to be prepared to swallow your pride for the next decade because it doesn't get better when you graduate residency. Once you graduate, you are now on the lowest of the totem pole of attendings. You get the worst consults, the sickest patients, the worst hours, and have to take more abuse from other physicians now. The new anesthesia attendings frequently get put in rooms by themselves, asked to stay late without extra pay, and have to take the lion's share of call. Additionally, consider the other side of the equation. You now have people trying to claim that all the stuff you've been through as mentioned above was the same as what they went through as a NP student, PA student, SRNA, etc. Have a DNP introducing herself as "Dr. xxxx, one of the pediatric NICU doctors". SRNA students introduce themselves as anesthesia residents (with much better hours clearly). CRNAs introduce themselves as nurse anesthesiologists! You go through all this training expecting to be treated with more respect and have a coveted title and all the other people want to be you without sacrificing a decade of their life, spending $20k in board exams/review materials, competing with thousands of people for a residency spot, taking multiple rigorous board exams throughout medical school and residency, competing for a fellowship spot, sacrificing holidays/birthdays/funerals/first steps/first words etc. One of our night CRNA's has demeaned our profession to the suffix "-ologist". "I sometimes think about getting my -ologist" like it's something you just get at a grocery store. Another demeaning term is MDA (MD Anesthesiologist) like there is any other type of anesthesiologist. If I was in my mid thirties with a family, no way would I go back regardless of specialty. It was still worth it to me since I started this journey in my mid twenties and am almost done. Yes, the money is better. Yes, you get more of a say in things to a certain extent (but this is going away with corporate medicine). Yes, your life will suffer financially, emotionally, and structurally to obtain these things. But boy, I have aged a lot in such a short period of time. After doing all this, I genuinely wonder if I should have even gone into medicine at all. Academic training centers for residents are awful. You probably make good money and have predictable hours now (Looking back, I feel like I did in my PA career). That is worth a lot and a lot of people would want to have that. Find something you enjoy whether it be more devotion to the profession or a hobby to devote time to. The stresses of being a physician do not end with medical school. They get worse with residency. Then even worse as an attending until you are established. Once established, probably gets better. Yes, I am burnt out while writing this haha. But it is something that you will likely experience if you go to medical school. Hope this was helpful to see things from a different lens! Having been a PA, I still would much rather work with a PA than any NP or CRNA! Doing what you love doesn't necessarily mean going to medical school to do it because there is not much respect in being a physician anymore.

Guy's don't worry my application have been under review since May 25th. We all in the waiting game together. We got this! If it's your time nothing can take your spot away. I'm just patiently waiting I'm not nervous not one bit.

Just got an interview invite !

Update: Totally forgot I should post whether or not I passed Step 1. And I am pleased to announce that I did indeed Pass Step 1. Seeing that PASS on the screen was a weight off my shoulders. Also, our revisions on the paper about APPs were accepted and will be hitting the press in around 2 months time. Now, I really have nothing to report until after a few rotations. Psychiatry here I come.

I won’t be accepting my seat, I hope someone hears good news from the waitlist !

Goodmorning all , tomorrow is June ! May we all get in

curious how many people applied to ucsd. can people give this a thumbs up if you’re still interested in the program? and does anyone know how to see how many people are in this thread or follow the thread?

JUST GOT THE CALL!!!!! I'm going to be a PA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Edit: following the 02/12 interview is there a group for accepted applicants?

If the lack of procedures bugs you, get a side gig working per diem in the ICU or ED 2 days a month. Stuff your mattress with all the extra cash then buy a villa in Tuscany. Sounds like a great transition to retirement.

Hello, I am currently a first year student at CUNY. They have began interviews. This is the first week of interviews! They are in person. best of luck! I am happy to answer any questions!

I have found that the most common complaint is “the administration doesn’t listen” followed by “this person didn’t need to come in”. In reality, using an algorithm that you suggest I feel is a mistake. True, most diagnoses you will catch, but simply because of probability- a nice plinko game of luck. However, by taking a good history you can narrow your differential down and follow that up with appropriate testing. The patient literally tells you what the problem is.

hospitalist service covers all patients I don’t currently cover ltc. But have though the pandemic where I did everything (but Medicare does have restrictions) I don’t do anything inpatient, nor do any community docs. yes except for federal rules preventing treating workers comp, coast guard pilot physical, FAA physicals and the darn DM shoes. My requirements to be PA instead of doc is a supervision agreement, and 96 hour notification to doc after sch 2 script. I function as a doc, my own practice, my own panel, my own stress and responsibility. point is I dont “need” another 3 yrs of school and three years of residency to do exactly what I am doing. I need ITSp and full authority to practice.

Thats ok!!! There are more days in the week. I'm sure they will be calling more people in the next few days

Let's go! We got this everyone!

If anyone is wondering, I emailed and they said "You will hear back from us next week if you are invited to interview, waitlisted to interview, or declined admission"!!

just emailed a staff member asking when we will hear back. will update everyone as soon as possible:)

Got a text from the admissions counselor stating, "We are waiting on the PA committee. Thank you for your patience." Anyone else get this message?

I also got off the interview waitlist today! woo!

Congrats everyone!!! Does anyone know if email invites will trickle in or was that a one and done situation