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  2. Physician Assistant Student Forums

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  3. Professional Physician Assistant

    1. Professional PA General Discussion

      A forum for graduated PAs to discuss topics of interest.  Students and applicants may participate in relevant topics, but are to start new threads in their respective sections only, NOT here.  Threads or posts not on topic will be deleted or moved to the appropriate forum at moderator discretion.

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    9. Physician Assistant Doctorate

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  4. International Physician Assistant Forum

    1. International Physician Assistant

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      Healthy and gas saving tip.

      We all have our guilty sides I like a cold Mtn dew every so often Probably a few more then I should
      ChrisPAinED in Professional PA General Discussion
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      I don't know about this

      1) At least for us BNPs aren't standard AMI protocol for us so we tend to just do the troponin to start or if they have cardiac history we may order it also, they had several other presentations also like again mentioning a month ago they had chest pains and had a full workup done and a handful of times before that. 2) D-dimer was done day 1 as I replied to any other comment I forgot to include that but it was done and normal. 3) Normally yes any acute elevation would be a slam dunk admission but this is not a cardiac center so we call the cardiology team there and they made the point patient was discharged a little tachycardic last time they appeared to be anxious still. Persistent tachycardia even do to anxiety if it last long enough may elevate the troponin slightly. Well 0.71 is not slightly so we asked them for recommendations and that was to trend it (risk of lab error was also one thing to consider) mostly to determine if it was still increasing to determine suspicion for something like an AMI. Bonus questions: CRP is just a general inflammation marker and is just standard protocol Thyroid panel was also covered in urgent care and yes it can acutely change but in a rural hospital that doesn't see a whole lot of variety it's harder to order extras if the MD doesn't think it's necessary. Heart score is a 1 initially only because of age.
      ChrisPAinED in Emergency Medicine
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      Going for a doctorate and doing a fellowship

      Hello as many of you know I am a Physician assistant that works in emergency medicine primarily and some ICU work. I recently got accepted into a 2 year fellowship in critical care medicine as the primary but it also covers some pulmonary medicine and cardiological practice at the University of Vanderbilt! I am super excited to start that in a little while but I have also been looking at maybe getting a doctorate degree. My questions to you are would you recommend getting a doctorate? Any specific university programs you'd recommend? Anyone already done it, how flexible is it? Like are you able to still practice part time during school?
      ChrisPAinED in Physician Assistant Doctorate
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      Barry University FLORIDA 2023-2024 PA Cycle

      Yes, I am sure there will be some more movement of the waitlist as many get accepted to other programs, etc so don't lose hope! There are 78 in the GroupMe currently including both locations as well as some individuals from the Barry graduating c/o 2025. Since the GroupMe was posted on this forum and not sent formally from the school, I am sure there are some accepted students that are not in the GroupMe.
      PA11111 in Barry University
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      Barry University FLORIDA 2023-2024 PA Cycle

      It seems there are currently 78 people in the GroupMe. Do you think they might send out more acceptances to those on the waiting list?
      cococo1504 in Barry University
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